372 quotes found
“Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the 'size' of human suffering is absolutely relative".”
“Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.”
“As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.”
“No one gets out of this life alive.So leave a footprint of your choice.You are writing your epitaph.You are writing it now!Life is a process, not a goal.Live it now, or you will miss it!We have tim...”
“Prospective research looks forward in time to see how a group of individual change over time while retrospective research looks backward in time and attempts to reconstruct the conditions that led ...”
“empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.”
“Behavioral science is not for sissies.”
“I remember sitting in the Beth Shalom synagogue in Cambridge on the night of Kol Nidre. Peter Lipton, a friend and an atheist philosopher, was giving a sermon on the theme of atonement: If we treat...”
“All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No.”
“He said sometimes when you're young you have to think about things, because you're forming your value-sets and you keep coming up with Data Insufficient and finding holes in your programs. So you k...”
“What, then, was the new strategy he proposed? More troops and more money. For him, any other option was unthinkable. It would mean he had made a colossal mistake.”
“People only accept change in necessity and see necessity only in crisis.”
“My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. Its that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Bananas dont do psychological consistency. And the tiny p...”
“Outside voices are the feelings, wants and opinions of others that ring so loudly in your ears, you can't hear anymore what's true for yourself ... when outside voices take over, they keep you from...”
“Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.”
“No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort ...”
“I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which is its ideational content sounds very like a first attempt at t...”
“The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.”
“I discovered at an early age that I was - shall we be kind and say different? It's a better, more general word than the other one... I got sick... It was the feeling that the great, deadly pointing...”
“A woman's issues of soul cannot be treated by carving her into a more acceptable form as defined by an unconscious culture, nor can she be bent into a more intellectually acceptable shape by those ...”
