Daniela Damian
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“Mereu vor fi lucruri frumoase în lumea în care trăim, atâta timp cât știm unde și cum să privim.”
― cheile sinelui
― cheile sinelui
“sex as the vital antagonist to death—isn’t the orgasm the primal spark of life? I know of many instances in which sexual feelings arise in order to neutralize fears of death.”
― Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
― Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
“I early arrived at the insight that when no answer comes from within to the problems and complexities of life, they ultimately mean very little. Outward circumstances are no substitute for inner experience.”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“Each time a goal is attained, it merely breeds additional needs. Thus more scurrying, more seeking, ad infinitum.”
― The Spinoza Problem
― The Spinoza Problem
“Among the so-called neurotics of our day there are a good many
who in other ages would not have been neurotic-that is, divided
against themselves. If they had lived in a period and in a milieu in
which man was still linked by myth with the world of the ancestors,
and thus with nature truly experienced and not merely seen from
outside, they would have been spared this division with themselves.
I am speaking of those who cannot tolerate the loss of myth and
who can neither find a way to a merely exterior world, to the world
as seen by science, nor rest satisfied with an intellectual juggling
with words, which has nothing whatsoever to do with wisdom.”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
who in other ages would not have been neurotic-that is, divided
against themselves. If they had lived in a period and in a milieu in
which man was still linked by myth with the world of the ancestors,
and thus with nature truly experienced and not merely seen from
outside, they would have been spared this division with themselves.
I am speaking of those who cannot tolerate the loss of myth and
who can neither find a way to a merely exterior world, to the world
as seen by science, nor rest satisfied with an intellectual juggling
with words, which has nothing whatsoever to do with wisdom.”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
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