New Orts #86
September 7 MMXXV
In every consulting-room there ought to be two rather frightened people: the patient and the psychoanalyst. If they are not both frightened, one wonders why they are bothering to find out what everyone knows.
— Wilfred Bion (1897-1979), quoted in Jamieson Webster, On Breathing
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
— Anthony Anderson, a minister, in George Bernard Shaw’s play The Devil’s Disciple, quoted in David Brooks, How to Know a Person, chapter 1.
Human beings are like rivers; the water is one and the same in all of them but every river is narrow in some places, flows swifter in others; … Every man bears within him the germs of every human quality, and now manifests one, now another, and frequently he is quite unlike himself, while still remaining the same man.
— Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Resurrection
quoted in David Brooks, How to Know a Person, chapter 3.
Inspiration is very polite. She knocks softly and then goes away if we don’t answer the door.
— Mary Pipher, Letters to a Young Therapist
quoted in David Brooks, How to Know a Person, chapter 3.
We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.
— attributed to Anais Nin in David Brooks, How to Know a Person, chapter 5,
but apparently of Talmudic origin.
see https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/03/09/as-we-are/
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