"The lunatic's visions of horror are all..." - Quote by William James
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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“The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.”
“All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.”
“Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.”
More on Reality
“There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it.”
“I have made a very rude translation of the Seven against Thebes, and Pindar too I have looked at, and wish he was better worth translating. I believe even the best things are not equal to their fame. Perhaps it would be better to translate fame itself,--or is not that what the poets themselves do? However, I have not done with Pindar yet.”
“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.”