“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Marita in Ch. 11
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)
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“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
René Descartes
(1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
Source: Discourse on Method (Rozprava o metodě)
“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.”
Fernando Pessoa
(1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
Não há nenhuma ideia inteligente que possa ganhar aceitação geral sem ser misturada antes com um pouco de estupidez.
The Book of Disquietude, trans. Richard Zenith, text 104
“To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
A literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida.
Variant: To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
Source: The Book of Disquietude, trans. Richard Zenith, text 116
“In order to understand, I destroyed myself.”
A Factless Autobiography, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006, p. 73
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Para compreender, destruí-me.
“Love is so short and forgetting is so long.”
Es tan corto el amor y tan largo el olvido.
"Tonight I Can Write" (Puedo Escribir), XX, p. 51.
Variant: Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Source: Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) (1924)
“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”
Alfred Adler
(1870–1937) Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Personality Theorist
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
Source: Crime and Punishment (Zločin a trest)
“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
Source: The Idiot (Idiot)
“Where your fear is, there is your task.”
C.G. Jung
(1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
“The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”
C.G. Jung
(1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Source: Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”
Jordan Peterson
(1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
