За да създадете деца, първо трябва да сте изградили себе си. В противен случай ще се стремите да имате деца, за да задоволите животинските си нужди, заради самотата си или за да запълните празнината в...
She attempted to deal with her terror in a most ineffective and magical mode-a mode that I have seen many patients use: she attempted to elude death by refusing to live.
Only by being a man does a man release the woman in woman.
Love obsession often serves as a distraction, keeping the individual’s gaze from more painful thoughts.
If it weren’t for errant passion, death, despair, and loss, the great bulk of art would never have been born.
Eternal recurrence means that every time you choose an action you must be willing to choose it for all eternity. And it is the same for every action not made, every stillborn thought, every choice avo...
[T]he harvest of psychotherapy is not cure - surely, in our field, that is an illusion - but instead change or growth.
Whether I will live a long time or a short time, I’m alive now, at this moment. What I want is to know that there are other things to hope for besides length of life. What I want to know is that it is...
When you meet someone, you know all about him. On subsequent meetings, you blind yourself to your own wisdom
We should cherish things because they are true, not because they are old.
The power and omnipresence of the sexual drive: Next to the love of life it shows itself here as the strongest and most active of all motives, and incessantly lays claim to half the powers and thought...
The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life because that is the only reality; all else being the play of thought. But it might as well be our greatest folly...
Sterven is echter de eenzaamste gebeurtenis van het leven. We worden er niet alleen door van anderen afgescheiden, maar daarnaast stelt het ons ook bloot aan een nog angstaanjagender vorm van eenzaamh...
Sometimes death anxiety is dismissed as trivial in its universality. Who, after all, does not know and fear death? Yet it is one thing to know about death in general, to grit one's own teeth and stoke...
Schopenhauer credea că un om cu putere sau virtute interioară nu va cere nimic de la ceilalți; un astfel de om își este suficient.
Schopenhauer and Spinoza distilled, condensed, and funneled through the pupil, along the optic nerve, and directly into our occipital lobes. I’d love to be able to eat with my eyes—I’m
Just as the bones, flesh, intestines and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes the sight of man endurable, so the agitations and passions of the soul are enveloped in vanity; it is the skin...
If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so ea...
Iata ce-am invatat despre cancer: iti arata ce inseamna o boala incurabila si apoi te azvarle inapoi in lume, in propria ta viata, cu toata placerea si dulceata ei, pe care le simti acum mai mult ca n...
I have always found quite useful Freud's formulation that the dream borrows building blocks from the day residue, but that for images to be important enough to become incorporated into it, they must b...