Psychoanalysis is in essence
a cure through love.
(Simgund Freud: Letter to Carl Jung.)
Sigmund Freud, «How bold…»
How bold one gets
when he is sure of being loved.
(Sigmund Freud: Letter to his fiancée.)
Issac Newton, «No hypotheses…»
I contrive no hypotheses.
(Newton: Principia Mathematica.)
Albeit…
Albeit it does move!
(Attributed to Galileo Galilei.)
William Shenstone, «Patience…»
Patience is the Panacea;
but where does it grow,
or who can swallow it?
(William Shenstone: Essays on Men and Manners.)
Publilius Syrus, «Anger…»
Anger always thinks it has power
beyond its power.
(Publilius Syrus: Sententiae.)
Emerson, «A good indignation…»
A good indignation brings out
all one’s powers.
(Emerson.)
Spinoza, «Fear…»
Fear cannot be without hope
nor hope without fear.
(Spinoza: Ethics.)
Sophocles, «To the man…»
To the man who is afraid
everything rustles.
(Sophocles from fragmentarly saved tragedy.)
Aristotle, «Hope…»
Hope is a waking dream.
(Aristotle – from Diogenes Laertius’ Lives.)