“Our minds are so constituted that a change of objects brings nearly as much relief as actual repose.”

— Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben

The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838)

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Austrian psychiatrist, poet and philosopher 1806–1849

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