"Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on analysis
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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on dullness   

"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on democracy
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"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on absurdity
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"Beware the fury of a patient man."

Dryden, John on patience
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"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous'' on adversity
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"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on deeds and good deeds
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"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on age and aging
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"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on adversity
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on education
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"Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on insanity
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"The word Christianity is already a misunderstanding -- in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on jesus christ
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"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on love
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"Love is a great beautifier."

Alcott, Louisa May on love
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on music
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"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on men
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"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on memory
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"Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few."

Dryden, John on democracy   

"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on rest
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"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes."

Cato The Elder on anger
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"My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth."

Auden, W. H. on politics
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