When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

I believe now that the same principle is true in this type of counseling: the counselor’s personality dictates his counseling approach.

You will find that no one has ever done anything wholly for others. All actions are self-directed, all service is self-serving, all love self-loving.”

The joy of being observed ran so deep that Breuer believed the real pain of old age, bereavement, outliving one’s friends, was the absence of scrutiny—the horror of living an unobserved life.

How much of life have I missed, he wondered, simply by failing to look? Or by looking and not seeing?

The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud.

“Life—a spark between two voids. A nice image, Josef. And isn’t it strange how we are so preoccupied with the second void and never think upon the first?”

Montaigne’s essay on death

he says that we feel hatred toward those who see our secrets and catch us in tender feelings. What we need at that moment is not sympathy but to regain our power over our own emotions.”

stated that there was a basic division of the ways of men: those who wish for peace of soul and happiness must believe and embrace faith, while those who wish to pursue the truth must forsake peace of mind and devote their life to inquiry.