More specifically concerning: psychology
the dim view
21 April 2013, around 5.17.
By sacrificing thought, which in its reified form as mathematics, machinery, organization, avenges itself on a humanity forgetful of it, enlightenment forfeited its own realization. By subjecting everything particular to its discipline, it left the uncomprehended whole free to rebound as mastery over things against the life and consciousness of human beings. But a true […]
Montaigne 1.38
2 October 2015, around 8.45.
anachronism When I scold my valet I scold him with all my hear: my imprecations are real and not feigned; but when the fumes have passed over, let him but need my help, I willingly grant it him; I instantly turn the leaf. When I call him a silly fool, a calf, I have no […]
Citation (56)
17 January 2017, around 6.40.
accumulating and collecting knowledge…
Citation (64)
7 September 2020, around 12.22.
memory, the field of vision, consciousness, a spark.
force of habit
17 March 2024, around 18.08.
Whatever habit has rendered delightful, will be relinquished with reluctance, and will continue to be consumed notwithstanding a very heavy tax; but this reluctance has its limits… —David Ricardo (On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, p. 241) Every step outward would then be harmful to this introverted book living in its own idyllic […]
Adversaria (25)
30 April 2025, around 4.31.
‘Her psychic membrane was so permeable that she picked up on clues that lay far beneath the surface of daily life’ —James Hollis (Living with Borrowed Dust: Reflections on Life, Love, and Other Grievances, 42%) ‘Dream work is work, and it is a very uncertain forensic endeavor’ —James Hollis (Living with Borrowed Dust: Reflections on […]
subjected thus
8 July 2025, around 4.41.
Here as later there is reason to suspect that no conclusions were ever drawn from Omniscience: Yahweh did not consult his total knowledge and was accordingly surprised by the result. One can observe the same phenomenon in human beings, wherever in fact people cannot deny themselves the pleasure of their emotions. It must be admitted […]
imposition
21 July 2025, around 14.58.
But there are acts of a different kind to this when the outer crust gets broken by the inner self breaking through at a moment of tension and you get what may be called a free act. Such acts are of rare occurrence. It is only at moments of tension and crisis that we choose […]
roaring
29 September 2025, around 16.06.
The other day while reading my daily quota of Bayle’s Historical and Critical Dictionary, I encountered the entry on Rorarius, and I spent a few minutes rolling that name around, batting it to and fro, and making nonsense of it. The main draw of the entry, I should mention, is the discussion of whether animals […]
stock images
28 March 2026, around 11.50.
A melancholic patient is filled through and through with intensely painful emotion about himself. He is threatened, he is guilty, he is doomed, he is annihilated, he is lost. His mind is fixed as if in a cramp on these feelings of his own situation, and in all the books on insanity you may read […]