“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.” B. Pascal.
“Character traits are secret psychoses.” S. Ferenczi.
“A person who ‘becomes loved’ does not any more to the same extent the urgent desire to love.” Reik.
“Go away, nearer!”
“When I love you, what does that concern you?”
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, IV
Goethe.
“The pleasure of love is in loving, and one is happier in the passion one feels than in the passions one arouses in another.”
Maximes.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
“Voltaire refused to enter a particular discussion with another gentleman because he said there were too many people involved in it. The astonished visitor announced that they were alone and only two. But Voltaire said, “You are mistaken, sir. There are at least six persons involved. There is the man I think you are, the man you yourself think you are and then the man you really are, and the saem is true the other way round.” [In Reik, Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions, 1949].
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