“The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.”
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“People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.”
“People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.”
“But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?”
“A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.”
“Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.”
“We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.”
“If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!”
“I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.”
“Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!”
“The English are the people of consummate cant.”
“The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.”
“Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.”
“However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.”
“When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.”
“In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.”
“The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.”
“People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.”
“Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.”
“Christianity is Platonism for the people.”