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“We can postulate that there must be diseases founded on a conflict between ego and super-ego. Analysis gives us the right to infer that…

— Sigmund Freud

“I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Big Five traits: Introversion-Extroversion; Agreeableness; Openness to Experience; Conscientiousness; and Emotional Stability.”

— Susan Cain

“Homogeneity breeds weakness: theoretical blind spots, stale paradigms, an echo-chamber mentality, and cults of personality.”

— V.S. Ramachandran

“Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect…

— Criss Jami

“The Complete Work is essentially dramatic, thought it takes different forms - prose passages in this first volume, poems and philosophies in other volumes.…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Personality is composed of two fundamentally different types of traits: those of 'character;' and those of 'temperament.' Your character traits stem from your experiences.…

— Helen Fisher

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was…

— Robert Greene

“We [of Thelema] are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting one self is anything from neurosis to down right lunacy; in particular, melancholia.”

— Aleister Crowley

“Hermann Boerhaave still defined melancholia as merely "a long persistent delirium without fever, during which the sufferer is obsessed by only one thought.”

— Michel Foucault

“character-driven idea fascinated Barrios. It suggested that genius is much more than high intelligence, innate talent, extraordinary work ethic, or uncanny luck, but rather…

— Sean Patrick

“Ruefully, nobody perceives me as exceptionally gifted, intelligent, handsome, or physically strong. My sense of alienation stems from an inferiority complex, depressive nature, and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster