At least descriptive psychology is probably, taken as a whole, a form of anthropomorphism, a nibbling at our own limits.
She is so distinct to me, it's as though I had run my hands all over her.
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
و لا شك ان ابائنا الاولين عندما اخطأوا , لم يكونوا قد توهموا علي الاغلب ادني وهم بان خطائهم ذاك كان خطأ لا نهايه له . فلقد كان ما يزال في وسعهم ان يروا بالفعل مفترق الطرق . و لقد كان سهلا ظان يتراجعوا...
إن المرء يكون بالغ الأنانية عندما يكون متعبًا
You're not cross with me, though? he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.
You do not need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary.
When I meet a pretty girl and beg her: Be so good as to come with me, and she walks past without a word, this is what she means to say:You are no Duke with a famous name, no broad American with Red In...
The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it.
That is a very poor career, but only a poor career give the world the light that an imperfect, but pretty good writer wants to generate--at all costs, unfotunately.
Other opportunities arise from time to time that almost don't accord with the overall situation, opportunities whereby a word, a glance, a sigh of trust may achieve more than a lifetime of exhausting...
One learns when one has to; one learns when one needs a way out; one learns at all costs. One stands over oneself with a whip; one flays oneself at the slightest opposition.
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
It puzzled K., at least it puzzled him looking at it from the policemen's point of view, that they had made him go into the room and left him alone there, where he had ten different ways of killing hi...
Extraordinary,' said the Burgomaster, 'extraordinary. And now do you think of staying here in Riva with us?'
No sooner is it a little calmer with me than it is almost too calm as though I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy
All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
الحب بالنسبة لي هو أنك السكين التي أديرها مغروسة في داخلي
What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.
There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.