In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories a...re nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes pers...uaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whatever practical people may say, this world is, after all, absolutely governed by ideas, and very often by the wildest and most ...hypothetical ideas. It is a matter of the very greatest importance that our theories of things that seem a long way apart from our daily lives, should be as far as possible true, and as far as possible removed from error.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its ...right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but o...nly from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »