Other related topics at: All In Your Mind Virtue and Vice 72. Obsession "I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession." Boswell: Life Link 391. Obsession "Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained." Johnson: Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands Link 1,389. Obsession; Progress "Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles." Johnson: Rambler #177 (November 26, 1751) Link