The mind is
like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
Neurosis
The expectation
that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the
layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no
right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed
illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as
a rule over long periods throughout life.
Normality
What usually
happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded,
stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost
their innate capabilities.
Gold
Gold and silver
from the dead turn often into lead.
Human Nature
Nature is
trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are
not the only experiment.
Manners
Parents are
usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue,
the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of
the greatest concern.
Problems
When I'm
working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it
is wrong.
Freud
Devout
believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic
illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of
constructing a personal one.
Destiny
Anatomy is
destiny.
Honesty
Being entirely
honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Insanity
A man should
not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they
are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Love
We are never so
defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as
when we have lost our love object or its love.
Mind
Every normal
person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of
the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
Procreation
It would be one
of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from
the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in
raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate
and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the
necessary satisfaction of a natural need.
Self-discovery
Look into the
depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will
understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will
thenceforth avoid falling ill.
Society
It is always
possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as
there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their
aggression.
Wisdom Just as a
cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom
would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one
quarter alone.
Who surpasses
or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
~ Lord Byron ~
My wife's
jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and
wanted to know who May was.
~ Rodney
Dangerfield ~
Jealousy is the
jaundice of the soul.
~ John Dryden ~
Jealousy, that
dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
~ Havelock
Ellis ~
I've never been
jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.
~ Jeff
Foxworthy ~
In jealousy
there is more of self-love than love.
~ Francois De
La Rochefoucauld ~
The jealous are
possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
~ Johann Kaspar
Lavater ~
Plain women are
always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so
occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
~ Oscar Wilde ~