psychology
“Is there no way out of the mind?”
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
“Love is a serious mental disease.”
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
“What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.”
“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”
“My experience is what I agree to attend to.”
“Your memory is a monster; it summons with will of its own.”
“If you want to understand men, study their excuses.”
“Take away the life-lie from the average man, and you take away his happiness.”
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.”
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”
“Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”
“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”
“Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.”