Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience....
Tag: psychology
Phillip C. McGraw
Life’s managed, not cured....
Slavoj Žižek, Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction....
Lisa Lutz, The Spellmans Strike Again
Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn’t quite as spectacular....
Erich Fromm
A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet “for sale”, who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has...
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition....
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone....
Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
We are gods with anuses....
Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave....
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection....
