… Our souls do not spell out their troubles.
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), pp. 53-54.
“To me, looking at other people in terms of what is wrong with them —these gradations of disturbance— was and is distasteful. Always implicit in the doctor's view is, of course, how much more "healthy" you are than they. And this is almost never the case.”
Source: Final Analysis (1990), p. 94
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Now anarchy, on the other hand, is almost starting from the principle that “in diversity, there is strength,” which makes much more sense from the point of view of looking at the natural world. Nature, and the forces of evolution — if you happen to be living in a country where they still believe in the forces of evolution, of course — did not really see fit to follow that “in unity and in uniformity there is strength” idea. If you want to talk about successful species, then you’re talking about bats and beetles; there are thousands of different varieties of different bat and beetle.
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You can’t kid yourself.
Quoted by Chris Connelly in Marie Claire May 2008 http://www.marieclaire.com/hair/celebrity/behind-scenes/heidi-klum-interview.
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 23, "The outside view", page 254 (ISBN 9780141033570).