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Lack of respect for the worker. This nourishes disconnection, fear, anger, phoniness, and all the bad stuff that impedes excellence.
Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.
The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep.
In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.
Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself.
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, as ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in thinking.
A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.
For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.
For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.
Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes. They are powerful without dominating.
When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.
Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.
No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.
Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.
Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.
Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the unclean person.
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.
The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.
We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.
A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon.
Purely sensual love is never true and lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion.
There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything. They give up.
Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.
When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.
The first goal is for the clinician to find the patient, and the patient to find the clinician, as both are required for a real alliance.
The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive.
If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.
There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.
Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.
Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.
When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened.
We bring a deeper commitment to our happiness when we fully understand, that our time left is limited and we really need to make it count.
Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.