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#1

“Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can be avoided.”
― Carl Jung, Cornwall Seminar, Pages 1-5.

tags: carl-jung, ethics, morbid, philosophy, psychology, transference

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#2

“The rich believe that their money will insulate them from setbacks and frustrations, and that's one of the absurdist expectations of all.”
― Alain de Botton

tags: alain-de-botton, anger, psychology, rich, wealth

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#3

“That you find Kierkegaard "frightful" has warmed the cockles of my heart. I find him simply insupportable and cannot understand, or rather, I understand only too well, why the theological neurosis of our time has made such a fuss over him. You are quite right when you say that the pathological is never valuable. It does, however, cause us the greatest difficulties and for this reason we learn the most from it.”
― C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. I, Pages 231-232

tags: c-g-jung, carl-jung, kierkegaard, neurosis, psychology, soren, soren-kierkegaard

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#4

“Bullying is an attack upon the runts of the litter - the weak of the species, and it is predicated on a lack of bond with the parents. If a child has a secure bond with the parents, that forms a force-field around the child in terms of bullying. If the child does not have a strong bond with the parents, then it's like being separated from the herd - those
are the ones who get picked off by the human predators in childhood and adulthood. So keep your contacts as close as you can, they provide an amazing shield against bullies and users.”
― Stefan Molyneux

tags: bully, bullying, death, ethics, evolution, morality, species, stefan-molyneux, wisdom

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#5

“Without virtue, it is hard to bear the results of good fortune suitably. Those who lack virtue become arrogant and wantonly aggressive when they have these other goods. They think less of everyone else, and do whatever they please. They do this because they are imitating the magnanimous person though they are not really like him.”
― Aristotle on the Megalopsychos

tags: aristotle, death, ethics-and-moral-philosophy, hate, life, love, megalopsychos, philosophy, truth, wisdom

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#6

“The megalopsychos cannot let anyone else, except a friend, determine his life. For that would be slavish; and this is why all flatterers are servile and inferior people are flatterers.”
― Aristotle

tags: aristotle, megalopsychos

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#7

“Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

tags: advice-for-daily-living, fashion

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#8

“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: 1997, annie-clark-tanner-lecture

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#9

“Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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#10

“In Astrology, the moon, among its other meanings, has that of "the common people," who submit (they know not why) to any independent will that can express itself with sufficient energy. The people who guillotined the mild Louis XVI died gladly for Napoleon. The impossibility of an actual democracy is due to this fact of mob-psychology. As soon as you group men, they lose their personalities. A parliament of the wisest and strongest men in the nation is liable to behave like a set of schoolboys, tearing up their desks and throwing their inkpots at each other. The only possibility of co-operation lies in discipline and autocracy, which men have sometimes established in the name of equal rights.”
― Aleister Crowley, Moonchild

tags: coexistence, cooperation, democracy, discipline, equality, government, mob, mob-psychology, psychology

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#11

“The love and war in the previous injunctions are of the nature of sport, where one respects, and learns from the opponent, but never interferes with him, outside the actual game. To seek to dominate or influence another is to seek to deform or destroy him; and he is a necessary part of one's own Universe, that is, of one's self.”
― "Beware lest any force another King against King " AL II 24 Aleister Crowley

tags: aleister-crowley, death, games, philosophy, psychology, truth, war, wisdom

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#12

“The criminal (as slave) often seeks a person of great perfection (and here, as a judge of people's imperfection, the criminal is much harsher than a good man), because he so wants to obtain trust from outside (not through an inner change of mind). If he believes he has found such a person, he gives himself up to him in the most complete slavery, and he searches in an importunate manner for people whom he could serve as a slave. He also wants to live as a slave so as never to be alone.”
― Otto Weininger

tags: death, ethics, flattery, life, love, otto-weininger, philosophy, psychology, truth, wisdom

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#13

“He is not prone to remember evils, since it is proper to a magnanimous person not to nurse memories, especially not of evils, but to overlook them.

He does not speak evil even of his enemies, except when he responds to their wanton aggression.

He especially avoids laments or entreaties about necessities or small matters.”
― Aristotle on the Megalopsychos

tags: aristotle, death, ethics, friendship, love, megalopsychos, philosophy, psychology, truth, wisdom

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#14

“To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong full natures in whom there is an excess of power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget. Mirabeau had no memory for insults and vile actions done to him and was unable to forgive simply because he - forgot. Such a man shakes off with a single shrug the many vermin that eat deep into others.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche On the Genealogy of Morals

tags: ethics, friedrich-nietzsche, justice, morals, philosophy, psychology, truth, wisdom

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#15

“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
― Cornel West

tags: justice, love, society, wisdom

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#16

“It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to admire her human grandeur to an ever growing degree. Her strength, her purity of will, her austerity toward herself, her objectivity, her incorruptible judgement— all these were of a kind seldom found joined in a single individual... The greatest scientific deed of her life—proving the existence of radioactive elements and isolating them—owes its accomplishment not merely to bold intuition but to a devotion and tenacity in execution under the most extreme hardships imaginable, such as the history of experimental science has not often witnessed.”
― Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

tags: austerity, curie, experimental-science, fortune, friendship, grandeur, intuition, marie-curie, nobel-laureate, purity, science, scientist, strength

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#17

“The beginning of wisdom, I believe, is our ability to accept an inherent messiness in our explanation of what's going on. Nowhere is it written that human minds should be able to give a full accounting of creation in all dimensions and on all levels. Ludwig Wittgenstein had the idea that philosophy should be what he called "true enough." I think that's a great idea. True enough is as true as can be gotten. The imagination is chaos. New forms are fetched out of it. The creative act is to let down the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended and then to attempt to bring out of it ideas.”
― Rupert Sheldrake

tags: creativity, wisdom-knowledge-ignorance

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#18

“Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external reasons. We are the same souls who, in Egypt, received the pictures of the animal forms of man's forebears. The old views have awakened again, but man has descended more deeply into the material world.”
― Rudolf Steiner, Egyptian Myths And Mysteries

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#19

“A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.”
― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

tags: games, play

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#20

“Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.”
― Sigmund Freud

tags: complaining, illness, neurosis, neurotics, stubborness

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#21

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

tags: conduct-of-life, life, self-confidence, self-trust

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#22

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: priorities

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#23

“It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

tags: bad-people

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#24

“When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: bad-people, brain, cognition, compassion, comprehension, development, empathy, good, good-people, misunderstanding, misunderstood, perspective, psychology, sympathy, understanding

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#25

“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: life, philosophy

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#26

“Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: hell, solipsism

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#27

“An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophers, philosophy, religion, wittgenstein

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#28

“When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

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#29

“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time”
― Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess

tags: exchange-students

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#30

“For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.”
― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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