Quotes of: Keller Keyword

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

Plutarch

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

Plutarch

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

Sigmund Freud

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

Sigmund Freud

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

Sigmund Freud

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

Sigmund Freud

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

Sigmund Freud

The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.

Sigmund Freud

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy

Siddhartha Mukherjee

For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.

Karen Armstrong

There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when in fact they're peaking.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Kay Redfield Jamison

We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.

Kay Redfield Jamison

There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat.

Kay Redfield Jamison

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.

Mumia Abu-Jamal

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

Michael Connelly