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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. – Susan Sontag

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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life — its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness — conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. – Susan Sontag

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Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. – Vladimir Nabokov, 1951

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To be too conscious is an illness — a real thoroughgoing illness. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Idleness is the parent of psychology. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Depression is rage spread thin. – George Santayana

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