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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. ”
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. ”
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ”
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. ”
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. ”
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. ”
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages. ”
For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture. ”
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. ”
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. ”