“Supposing that Truth is a woman - what then? Is there not ground for suspecting that all philosophers, in so far as they have been dogmatists, have failed to understand women - that the terrible seriousness and clumsy importunity with which they have usually paid their addresses to Truth, have been unskilled and unseemly methods for wining a woman? Certainly she has never allowed herself to be won.”
Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzche
(Portrait of a Young Girl, Gustav Klimt)
(via philosophicalpoetry)
So come on, you ragtime kings, and come on, you dolls, and sing
And pick up the dusty old horn and give it a blow
Playing: hard times ain’t gonna rule my mind
"The main thing is to love your neighbour as yourself - that is the main thing, and that is everything, for nothing else matters. (…) And yet it is an old truth, a truth that has been told over and over again, but in spite of that it finds no place among men!"
The Dream of a Ridicuolous Man, Dostoevsky
Bedhead - Liferaft
The bed at night is a life boat, a throne off which you can’t be thrown.
I hang my hands and feet over the sides and go into the space of what can never be known.
Reading Hurts
That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
(via mareeana)
Sigmund Freud:
Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy (1909) from The “Wolfman” and Other Cases (2003)
“Happy Valentine’s Day, Mom.”
Picasso’s first and last self portraits
1. Self Portrait, 1896, oil on canvas
2. Self Portrait Facing Death, 1972, pencil and crayon on paper
A friend, Pierre, tells of his memory of a visit to Picasso, “Picasso held the drawing beside his face to show that the expression of fear was a contrivance.” Then on another visit 3 months later, Pierre recalled that the harsh colored lines were even deeper, and Pierre writes, “He did not blink. I had the sudden impression that he was staring his own death in the face, like a good Spaniard”.
"I remember when I was in medical school, I thought I could learn everything I needed to be great doctor. Then I wandered into the ophthalmology wing of the medical library and saw a four volume textbook on eyes. Four volumes! On just the eyes!
I realized then that there was no way you can know everything, in the same way you all will not learn everything about how to assess radiographs in the next hour. If you did, what would be the point of five year residencies? So just take away as much as you can and don’t get caught up in the details just yet. We’re only scratching the surface."
A guest lecturer tries to calm the class after putting up case study radiographs that nobody could interpret resulting in panic. (via medicalstate)
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