"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."

Eliot, George on experience
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"Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up."

Eliot, George on friends and friendship   

"Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker."

Eliot, George on gossip
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"She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts."

Eliot, George on grief   

"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."

Eliot, George on influence
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"What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?"

Eliot, George on life
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"Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."

Eliot, George on animals
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"Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion."

Eliot, George on appearance
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"All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation."

Eliot, George on meaning
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"Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster."

Eliot, George on motives   

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"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."

Eliot, George on paradox   

"It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident."

Eliot, George on knowledge   

"It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism."

Eliot, George on temper   

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"Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day."

Eliot, George on thoughts and thinking   

"Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it."

Eliot, George on children   

"Malice is only another name for mediocrity."

Kavanagh, Patrick on malice   

"The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father."

Freud, Sigmund on god   

"One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation."

Freud, Sigmund on happiness
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"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."

Freud, Sigmund on honesty
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"I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."

Freud, Sigmund on humankind
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"The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life."

Freud, Sigmund on illusion   

"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."

Freud, Sigmund on love
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"The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness."

Freud, Sigmund on mind
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"A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist."

Freud, Sigmund on neurosis
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"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."

Freud, Sigmund on neurosis
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"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent."

Freud, Sigmund on normality
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"Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity."

Freud, Sigmund on opposition   

"The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will."

Freud, Sigmund on people
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"He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore."

Freud, Sigmund on secrets
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"Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill."

Freud, Sigmund on self discovery
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"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."

Freud, Sigmund on birth
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"The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris."

Freud, Sigmund on body   

"From error to error, one discovers the entire truth."

Freud, Sigmund on truth
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"Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home."

Freud, Sigmund on writers and writing
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"Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility."

Baudelaire, Charles on originality
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"We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on originality
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"No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity."

Maurois, Andre on originality   

"But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

Melville, Herman on originality
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"We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are."

Barrie, Sir James M. on failure
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"There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on failure
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