"Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us."

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Source : Irvin D. Yalom (2012). “Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy”, p.15, Basic Books

Irvin D. Yalom

#Ideas Quotes #May Quotes #Physicality Quotes

“To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.”
“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.”
“God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”
“To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.”
“Guys. If your pants are below your ***** you have no right to accuse any lady of dressing slutty.”
“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.”

Source : James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.478
“When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it is, as far as I am concerned, the most rank form of arrogance . . . The faith-healer Bosworth once said that faith makes God act. If you follow that line of reasoning God is in His heaven, but Bosworth rules the world!”
“America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.”

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