“I must learn to love the fool in me–the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of my human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my Fool.”
– Theodore Isaac Rubin; american psychiatrist and author.
“The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality, both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.”
~Wilhelm Reich; austrian psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and innovative iconoclast.
“We don’t raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women.”
~Donald McPherson; american academic speaker and former sports player.
“…no perfection, it’s either good enough or not enough…”
~$; cursed remains of an offal humanity…
“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class, it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.”
~ Anna Julia Cooper; american author, educator, black rights activist and scholar.
“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”
~ Charles Dickens; british author and social critic.
“I don’t think i’m easy to define. I’ve got a very wandering mind. And i’m not anything that you think i am anyway.”
~ Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett; british musician, composer, singer-songwriter and painter.
“Previously the most lucid artists had wanted to break the separation between art and life; the Situationist International raised this demand to a higher level in their desire to abolish the distance between life and revolution.”
~ Gilles Dauve; french author, political theorist, school teacher and translator in a Critique of the Situationist International, 1979.
“If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.”
~ Anne Frank; german author.
“Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.”
~ Lou Andreas-Salome; russian psychoanalyst and author.