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#pathology

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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

A little later, when breakfast was over and I had not yet gone up-stairs to my room, I had my first interview with Doctor Brandon, the famous alienist who was in charge of the case. I had never seen him before, but from the first moment that I looked at him I took his measure, almost by intuition. He was, I suppose, honest enough -- I have always granted him that, bitterly as I have felt toward him. It wasn't his fault that he lacked red blood in his brain, or that he had formed the habit, from long association with abnormal phenomena, of regarding all life as a disease. He was the sort of physician -- every nurse will understand what I mean -- who deals instinctively with groups instead of with individuals. He was long and solemn and very round in the face; and I hadn't talked to him ten minutes before I knew he had been educated in Germany, and that he had learned over there to treat every emotion as a pathological manifestation. I used to wonder what he got out of life -- what any one got out of life who had analyzed away everything except the bare structure.


Ellen Glasgow


#analysis #pathology #psychiatrist #psychiatry #psychologist

There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]


R. Alan Woods


#r-alan-woods #self-righteousness #sins #sociopathology #sociopaths

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#absolution #agnosticism #distrust #evasion #health

Among [Applewhite's] other teachings was the classic cult specialty of developing disdain for anyone outside of the Heaven's Gate commune. Applewhite flattered his would-be alien flock that they were an elite elect far superior to the non-initiated humans whom he considered to be deluded zombies.[...]Applewhite effectively fed his paranoid persecution complex to his followers to ensure blind loyalty to the group and himself while fostering alienation from the mundane world. This paradoxical superior/fearful attitude towards “Them” (i.e., anyone who is not one of “Us”) is one of the simplest means of hooking even the most skeptical curiosity seeker into the solipsistic netherworld of a [mentally unbalanced] leader's insecure and threatened worldview.


Zeena Schreck


#mass-suicides #psychopathology #religious-science-fiction #sects #sociology

Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people


Jonathan Franzen


#animals #cats #cats-being-needed #dogs #dogs-and-cats

DeeDee had to have a firm grasp on reality. Yet she knew God was bigger than a pathology report. So she prayed.


K. Howard Joslin


#faith #pathology #prayer #faith






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