People who merely believe and don't think always forget that they continually expose themselves to their own worst enemy: doubt. Wherever belief reigns, doubt lurks in the background. But thinking people welcome doubt: it serves them as a valuable stepping-stone to better knowledge. CW 11 - par 170
Friday, September 23, 2011
Quote of the day
People who merely believe and don't think always forget that they continually expose themselves to their own worst enemy: doubt. Wherever belief reigns, doubt lurks in the background. But thinking people welcome doubt: it serves them as a valuable stepping-stone to better knowledge. CW 11 - par 170
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Quote of the day
Only life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but fol all concerned. CW 8 - par 645
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Quote of the day
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him his instrument. The artists is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his owns ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him. CW 15 - par 157
Monday, September 19, 2011
Quote of the day
The small world of the child, the family milieu, is the model for the big world. The more intensely the family sets its stamp on the child, the more he will be emotionally inclined, as an adult, to see in the great world his former small world. Of course this must not be taken as a conscious intellectual process. On the contrary, the patient feels and sees the difference between now and then, and tries as well as he can to adapt himself. Perhaps he will even believe himself perfectly adapted, since he may be able to grasp the situation intellectually, but that does not prevent his emotions from lagging far behind his intellectual insight. CW 4 - par 312
Friday, September 16, 2011
Quote of the day
Neurosis is intimately bound up with the problem of our time and really represents an unsuccessful attempt on the part of the individual to solve the general problem in his own person. CW 7 - par 18
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Quote of the day
Everything to do with religion, everything it is and asserts, touches the human soul so closely that psychology least of all can afford to overlook it. CW 11 - par 172
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Quote of the day
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. CW 9 - par 429
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