#pathology

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#health #love #pathology #right #wrong

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#liars #manipulation #men-and-women #narcissism #narcissists

Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#ayn-rand #evil #evil-men #objectivism #psychopathic-personalities

There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end. ↗

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

#masochism #pleasure #psychopathology #sex #men

There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence. Not an attractive combination, because it results in self-hatred. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#guilt #impotence #iraq-war #leftism #pathology

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#dramatically #gone #i #i think #index

There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#acquire #cases #closely #diversity #drew

Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#back #cancer #center #cockroach #comes

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. ↗

— Robert Farrar Capon

#own #pathology #right #shock #unemployment

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#america #anywhere #guarded #latin #latin america