“But the fact is that when wine is taken in moderation, it gives rise to a large amount of breath, whose character is balanced, and whose luminosity is strong and brilliant. Hence wine disposes greatly to gladness, and the person is subject to quite trivial exciting agents. The breath now takes up the impression of agents belonging to the present time more easily than it does those which relate to the future; it responds to agents conducive to delight rather than those conducive to a sense of beauty.” GivingPersonsDoeCharacterFactsStrongTakenSubjectsAmountExcitingBreathsWineDelightBrilliantImpressionAgentsRelateBelongingBalancedModerationGladnessPresent Time Book:The Canon of Medicine of Avicenna Source: The Canon of Medicine of Avicenna
“I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state... a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one's mind and often misled it.” YearsMindMadeStatesLyingCertainTakenPressesRadioImpressionDietsSteadyDistortionMisledCensoredTotalitarian StateFalsification Book:The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Source: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
“What psycho-analysis reveals in the transference phenomena of neurotics can also be observed in the lives of some normal people. The impression they give is of being pursued by a malignant fate or possessed by some 'daemonic' power; but psycho-analysis has always taken the view that their fate is for the most part arranged by themselves and determined by early infantile influences.” PeopleGivingViewsTakenFateInfluenceNormalDeterminedImpressionAnalysisPossessedPursuedPsychoInfantileTransference Book:Beyond the Pleasure Principle Source: Beyond the Pleasure Principle