#psychology

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than

_Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human_

“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage,......

“Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. ‘No artist tolerates reality,’ says Nietzsche.” - Albert Camus, ...

“Hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes ...

Human life is only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does

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“Don’t, for heaven’s sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein,......

Be open to versions of happiness that you haven’t previously thought of.

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“For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.” - ...

Tell the truth even when it hurts; no, especially when it hurts.

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When people piss me off, sometimes I just want to look them straight in the eyes and say, ‘You’re lucky I have good

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The experimental method is the only method by which one could arrive at any scientific analysis of the passions.

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The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the

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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is

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If I hear myself speaking out loud, the ears with which I hear myself speaking out loud do not listen to me in the same way

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Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient; when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh,...

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Imagination in any form destroys truth.

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Love brings to light the noble and hidden qualities of a lover—his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to

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Most successes are unhappy. That’s why they are successes—they have to reassure themselves about themselves by

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Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since

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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

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Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while

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A man’s life is wasted when he lives on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows, that he never becomes

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