Quote by Sianne Ngai

“Most writers on the emotions and on human conduct seem to be treating rather of matters outside nature than of natural phenomena following nature's…

— Baruch Spinoza

“It often happens that in situations of unrestraint, where there is no thought of the eye of criticism, real feeling glides into a mode…

— Thomas Hardy

“The causes of his embitterment were many, remote and near. He was angry with himself for being young and the prey of restless foolish…

— James Joyce

“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house, the solitude,…

— Seneca

All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity,…

— Philip Guston

“To search for a solutions, knowing that the problem is insoluble; to serve, while smiling at what one serves; to subject oneself to an…

— Henry de Montherlant

“I am amazed at the heart of man: It possesses the substance of wisdom as well as the opposites contrary to it ... for…

— Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib

“unilateral sense of communication and cooperation, rather coercively, nay, even menacingly demand”

— Aindra Das

“No good thing renders its possessor happy, unless his mind is reconciled to the possibility of loss; nothing, however, is lost with less discomfort…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“For although dysphoric affects often seem to be the psychic fuel on which capitalist society runs, envy, paranoia, and all the emotional idioms I…

— Sianne Ngai

“Action is being truly observant of your own thoughts, good or bad, looking into the true nature of whatever thoughts may arise, neither tracing…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“Thus, in the realm of human relationships, a different form of pleasure is experienced, a different sort of motivation is involved, and a different…

— Ayn Rand