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Quote by Susan Sontag
A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology co

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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. – Susan Sontag

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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. – Susan Sontag

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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. – Susan Sontag

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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. – Mason Cooley

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If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology. – D.H. Lawrence, St.Mawr

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It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature. – G.K. Chesterton, London Observer, 9 December 1934

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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is — a vice? – Friedrich Nietzsche, alluding to the proverb “Idleness is the beginning of all v

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