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1 " Why does the same book elicit such a range of responses? There must be something in the particular reader that leaps out to embrace the book. His life, his psychology, his image of himself. There must be something lurking deep in the mind—or, as this Freud says, the unconscious—that causes a particular reader to fall in love with a particular writer. "
― Irvin D. Yalom , The Spinoza Problem
2 " You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach. "
3 " Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning. "
4 " Each time a goal is attained, it merely breeds additional needs. Thus more scurrying, more seeking, ad infinitum. "
5 " We should cherish things because they are true, not because they are old. "
6 " When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune. "
7 " Dom nije mjesto - to je stanje svijesti. "
8 " Fame, for example, consists of the opinions of others and requires that we must live our life as others wish. "
9 " Spinoza was the supreme rationalist. He saw an endless stream of causality in the world. For him there is no such entity as will or will power. Nothing happens capriciously. Everything is caused by something prior, and the more we devote ourselves to the understanding of this causative network, the more free we become." ... "I'm sure he would have said that you are subject to passions that are driven by inadequate ideas rather than by the ideas that flow from a true quest for understanding the nature of reality." ... "He states explicitly that a passion ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a more clear and distinct idea of it--that is, the causative nexus underlying the passion." p.269 "
10 " همزیستیِ آیین ها و ذهن مستدلِ هشیار امکان پذیر نیست. این دو هم ستیزهایی سخت هستند "
11 " I submit that God has no wishes about how, or even if, we glorify Him. Allow me, then, Jacob, to love God in my own fashion.” Franco’s "
12 " حتما باید چیزی عمیقا در ژرفای ذهن یا همانطور که فروید می گوید در ناخودآگاه وجود داشته باشد که سبب شود خوانندگانی خاص، عاشق نویسنده ای خاص شوند "
13 " مهم نیست که چه چیزی را باور داری یا می گویی که باور داری، مهم است که چگونه زندگی می کنی "
14 " …It seems impossible to overestimate their capacity for irrationality. Somewhere in this world, with every blink of the eye, a fool is born. "
15 " Oamenii ii plac pe cei carora le pasa de ei. "
16 " Partea intunecata a admiratiei este invidia combinata cu nemultumirea fata de modestia propriei conditii. "
17 " سِفر ایوب/ باب بیست و هشتم، ایوب گفته: همه ی انسانها! بدانید که تر س از خداوند حکمت واقعی است و دوری نمودن از شرارت، فهم حقیقی است "
18 " پیامبران انسانهایی بودند که از نعمت «پندارهای روشن» برخوردار بودند اما نه ضرورتا «قدرتِ» تعقل «بسیار» پرورش یافته "
19 " پیشگویی های معجزه وار چیزی بیش از تصورهای خیالی پیامبران نیست. هر چیزی علتی طبیعی دارد. هر چه بیشتر «شناخت» پیدا کنیم، چیزهای کمتری وجود خواهند داشت که فقط خدا از آن آگاه باشد. هر چه «جهل» بیشتر باشد، رویدادها را بیشتر به خدا نسبت می دهیم. از خردمندی خدادادی خود استفاده کنید، نمی توان آیه های کتاب مقدس را واژه به واژه درک کرد، آنها استعاره هستند "
20 " تمام قوم اسرائیل در نگرش محترمانه خود به تورات، در همان گناهی دخیل بودند که خدا به وسیله موسی به آنها هشدار داده بود: بت برستی. در همه جا یهودیان نه بت هایی طلایی بلکه بت هایی از «کاغذ و جوهر» را می پرستیدند "
