Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion; but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.
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This experience punctured the desired hole in her rationalism and broke the ice of her intellectual resistance.
Psychoanalysis is right to be mistrustful. One of its rules runs: whatever disturbs the continuation of the work of analysis is a resistance.
analysis / disturbs / mistrustful / Psychoanalysis / resistance
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
pain / resistance / torture / will
And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.
desperate / learn / resistance