Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 115
Un chagrin de passage (1994, A Fleeting Sorrow, translated 1995)
“It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness”
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd
From a new translation of "Progress in Individual Psychology" ("Fortschritte der Individualpsychologie", 1923), a journal article by Alfred Adler, in the AAISF/ATP Archives.
In Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave, Ur III Period (21st century BCE). http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.1#
“Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.”
Source: The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
A Summer Bird-Cage (1963; New York: William Morrow, 1964) p. 120
“Having no destination, I am never lost.”
Attributed to Ikkyu in Nine-headed Dragon River : Zen journals, 1969-1985 (1986) by Peter Matthiessen
Disputed
Source: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 3 : Eros in Conflict with Sex, p. 73
Context: Sex can be defined fairly adequately in physiological terms as consisting of the building up of bodily tensions and their release. Eros, in contrast, is the experiencing of the personal intentions and meaning of the act. Whereas sex is a rhythm of stimulus and response, eros is a state of being. The pleasure of sex is described by Freud and others as the reduction of tension; in eros, on the contrary, we wish not to be released from the excitement but rather to hang on to it, to bask in it, and even to increase it. The end toward which sex points is gratification and relaxation, whereas eros is a desiring, longing, a forever reaching out, seeking to expand.
“Music was destined to reach its culmination in the likeness of itself.”
Free Composition, § 251, p. 93.
