“Neuroscience done honestly dissolves the self.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“A writer's mind is unhinged when he starts from “I write, what I see”, but ends up with “I see, what I write”
“Words and paper, however, did not seem real enough to me; something more was needed. I had to achieve a kind of representation in stone of my innermost thoughts and of the knowledge I had acquired. - Jung”
Source: Morton Prince M.D. El mecanismo y la interpretación de los sueños: Una revisión crítica
“As long as political movements exercise a fatal attraction for those who seek to drown the sense of personal failure in collective action - as if collective action somehow precluded rigorous attention to the quality of personal life - political movements will have little to say about the personal dimension of social crisis.”
Source: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
“There are nuts in every bag of trail mix.”
“To cultivate his inner Athena, Pericles first had to find a way to master his emotions. Emotions turn us inward, away from nous, away from reality. We dwell on our anger or our insecurities. If we look out at the world and try to solve problems, we see things through the lens of these emotions; they cloud our vision. Pericles trained himself to never react in the moment, to never make a decision while under the influence of strong emotion. Instead, he analyzed his feelings. Usually when he looked closely at his insecurities or his anger, he saw that they were not really justified, and they lost their significance under scrutiny.”
Source: The Laws of Human Nature
“After days of investigation, Adrian finally matched the face from the footage to a name: Jürgen Prunkvoll, now living under the identity of Jan Eiskalt. He was the last person seen with Dalia.”
Source: THE IRRESISTIBLE ALLURE OF BRUTALITY
“non sapeva spiegare se stesso a se stesso”
Source: A Little Life
“The human being is unique precisely because they constantly choose between the best and the worst in every context. Astrology contributes to the recovery, preservation, and expansion of this clarity: of how the tracks are laid for the train of personal history.”
Source: Astrology and Free Will: The 12 facets of the individual
“Notice what you defend.”
Source: Limiting Interference in Life