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Idleness is the parent of psychology. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Idleness is the parent of psychology. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Happiness
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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Psychology

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. – Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave

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Psychology

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter. – Susan Sontag

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Psychology

Loneliness… is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. – Thomas Wolfe

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Psychology

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