A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.
There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.
False values begin with the worship of things.
Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.
A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.