"If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the infancy of the race, we find ourselves wandering in delighted bewilderment through a darkness shot with lightning and purple flame."

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Source : 1947 The Irish.

Sean O Faolain

#People Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Literature Quotes

“The play is not in the words, itâ€™s in you!”
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

Source : Speech, 14 Feb. 1923, in The Times 15 Feb. 1923
“Every fear is fear of death.”

Source : Wilhelm Stekel (1999). “Conditions of Nervous Anxiety and Their Treatment”, p.377, Psychology Press
“This is hurting me a lot more than itâ€™s hurting you," he said. It was his standard line, but I knew that this time he was right. Worse than the boil was the stuff that came out of it. What got to me, and got to him even worse, was the stench, which was unbearable, and unlike anything I had come across before. It was, I thought, what evil must smell likeâ€”not an evil person but the wicked ideas that have made him that way. How could a person continue to live with something so rotten inside? And so much of it!”
“The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.”

Source : Allen Wheelis (1970). “The desert”
“Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!”
“If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.”

Source : Attributed in "Problems of Theoretical Psychology - ISTP 1995" by Charles W. Tolman, (p. 31), 1996.
“If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.”

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