“Art should aim at the production of individuality in the component details of its compositions.”
― Adventures of Ideas
― Adventures of Ideas
“In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe.”
― Religion in the Making
― Religion in the Making
“Relating to objects can be looked at in the same way as psychosomatic coexistence and the wider issue of integration. Object-relating is something that the maturational process drives the baby to achieve, but cannot happen securely unless the world is presented to the baby well enough. The adapting mother presents the world in such a way that the baby starts with a ration of the experience of omnipotence, this being the proper foundation for his or her later coming to terms with the Reality Principle.”
― Home Is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst
― Home Is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst
“and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”
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“With an influx of sensory information comes a need for complex internal processing. When more is known, decisions become more complicated.”
― Other Minds
― Other Minds
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