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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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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. – Susan Sontag

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Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. – Susan Sontag

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If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well. – Rainer Maria Rilke, on leaving psychotherapy

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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. – Voltaire

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The reflex is physiology below the collar button. Psychology is physiology above the collar button. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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