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“The more remote or exotic the place, the more likely we are to have full frontal views of the dead and dying.”
― Regarding the Pain of Others
― Regarding the Pain of Others
“(Psychoanalysis, it seems, does wonders for a man’s prose style: it renders it labyrinthine without subtlety.) There is no place, then, for human agency, except the kind that leads you to talk about yourself in the presence of another for twenty years. Shallowness can go no deeper.”
― Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality
― Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality
“It is a view of suffering, of the pain of others, that is rooted in religious thinking, which links pain to sacrifice, sacrifice to exaltation - a view that could not be more alien to a modern sensibility, which regards suffering as something that is a mistake or an accident or a crime. Something to be fixed. Something to be refused. Something that makes one feel powerless.”
― Regarding the Pain of Others
― Regarding the Pain of Others
“We know ourselves only
as far as we've been tested.
I tell you this
from my unknown heart.”
―
as far as we've been tested.
I tell you this
from my unknown heart.”
―
“Psychoanalysis, as well as death, becomes a bourn from which no traveler returns: and like anything indulged in for a long time, concern over the small change of life becomes a habit, and an irritating one, that inhibits interest and taking part in the wider world. It is a poor center of a man’s attention, himself; compared with psychoanalysis, haruspicy or hepatoscopy (divination by entrails or the liver of sacrificed animals) is harmless to the character, for though it is absurd, it at least is limited in time.”
― Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality
― Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality
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