Extended excerpt [Non-fiction]:

“It is a well-known fact that preachers are always preaching against the sins to which they are, unconsciously, most prone (and usually rigidly avoid those to which they are consciously addicted). Therefore, it is literally true that in judging others we trumpet abroad our secret faults. We personalize our unrecognized failings, and hate in others the very faults to which we are secretly addicted.” (p. 37)

Source: Library – Psychology and Morals: An Analysis of Character (1964|2016 Routledge edition) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 978-1-138-64801-2

Extended excerpt [Non-fiction. Ellipsis represents Repeat Right text edit for brevity. Bold text is apparent typo error found in cited edition.]:

“It is one of the many paradoxes of psychology that the pursuit of happiness, like the pursuit of pleasure, defeats it own purpose. We find happiness only when we do not directly seek it. […]

[Repeat Right editor’s note: Hadfield describes listening to music as an example; “An analogy will make this clear…”]

   By thus directing our attention to an objective ideal, nature maintains the healthy balance between the subjective feelings in us and the objective world. She contrives to make it impossible for anyone to attain happiness by turning into himself, but only by moving into touch with the objective world. Thus, each man who succeeds in the search for happiness must needs add his quota to the world’s progress.” (pp. 123-124)

Source: Library – Psychology and Morals: An Analysis of Character (1923|October 1929 McBride edition) Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) No. 1011901703

Extended excerpt: “The dream did not solve her problem except to show her what her problem was – and to see a problem clearly is three parts of the way to solving it. It pointed to the fact that the attitude of mind she had adopted and on which she prided herself was the chief defect of her character requiring attention.” (pp. 92-93)

Source link: Library – Dreams and Nightmares (1954|1969 Penguin ed.) online via Open Library [free subscription service]: https://archive.org/stream/dreamsnightmares00hadf#page/92/mode/2up/search/to+see+a+problem