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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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To take a photograph is to participate in another persons mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt. – Susan Sontag

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Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style — but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated. – Susan Sontag

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But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. – Alan Watts

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Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected the American society within the last fifty years. – Thomas S. Szasz

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Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats. – Douglas Busch

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