Cleckley Hervey Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Hervey Cleckley wrote in The Mask of Sanity — Bella DePaulo

We can no longer afford our historical sentimentality, even addiction, to the past. — Michael Frost

A smartphone is an addictive device which traps a soul into a lifeless planet full of lives — Munia Khan

Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun. — Jaggi Vasudev

If you make a mistake, celebrate. — Benjamin Zander

They also bring to mind what sometimes seems to be a rapt predilection of small but influential cults of intellectuals or esthetes for what is generally regarded as perverse dispirited or distastefully unintelligible. The award of a Nobel Prize in literature to Andre Gide who in his work fervently and openly insists that pederasty is the superior and preferable way of life for adolescent boys furnishes a memorable example of such judgments. Renowned critics and some professors in our best universities reverently acclaim as the superlative expression of genius James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake a 628page collection of erudite gibberish indistinguishable to most people from the familiar word salad produced by hebephrenic patients on the back wards of any state hospital. — Hervey M. Cleckley

If he is not supposed to be that, then he is a hypocrite, and the higher he climbs on this path, the more dreadful a hypocrite he is. — Soren Kierkegaard

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion ... — W. Somerset Maugham

Our first and last love is self-love. — Christian Nestell Bovee

After a while there were no more tule fogs at dawn and all Charlotte wanted was one night that did not end badly. — Joan Didion