#lana

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#acute #deal #egotism #everything #explanation

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#allegorical #arbitrary #attaches #be true #categories

the man that decided to change on the 12th hour, dies on the 11th". ↗

— Hlovate

#change

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination. ↗

— Paul David Tripp

#fallen #imaginations #people #struggling #change

We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us. ↗

— Liam Callanan

#death #ghosts #liam-callanan #the-cloud-atlas #death

It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed. ("The Wendigo") ↗