Famous quotes by Psychologists

"Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies?"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

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