"Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the nature of man and animals, and their relations to external objects; whoever would establish, on the intellectual and moral functions, a solid doctrine of mental diseases, of the general and governing influence of the brain in the states of health and disease, should know, that it is indispensable, that the study of the organization of the brain should march side by side with that of its functions."

-- Franz Joseph Gall

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“I am tired again tonight - a good kind of tired. Some aches are well earned. I wish I could see the sky tonight”
“I believe the artist is capable of contributing to the broader evolution of culture in all of its dimensions.”

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“Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.”
“Happiness is inside you, not with another person”
“No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.”

Source : Letter to Edith. "J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography". Book by Humphrey Carpenter, p. 66, 1977.
“You could drop me off in the middle of a sea of people, and I'm happy.”
“The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.”
“Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you regret later on. Or no, not regret. You say something so razor-sharp that the person you say it to carries it around with them for the rest of their life.”

Source : Herman Koch (2012). “The Dinner”, p.133, Atlantic Books Ltd

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