Quotes by Austrian authors

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Wilhelm Reich

"Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation"

Wilhelm Reich, Psychologist

"This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"My different personalities leave me in peace now"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"I am no longer afraid to say anything"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"I am glad that I do not have any children"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"How can one know anything at all about people?"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that's what me and my wife have. We don't need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it's important to educate the kids with that"

Boris Kodjoe, Actor

"Yet, that's what studios do. If one thing works, they'll keep doing it till it runs its course and people aren't interested anymore"

Boris Kodjoe, Actor

"Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle"

Boris Kodjoe, Actor

"We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter"

Boris Kodjoe, Actor

"We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don't deal with ourselves and don't deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy"

Boris Kodjoe, Actor

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