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79 Psychiatrist Quotes

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Light Darkness Purpose Being
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Change Liberate Accept Oppresses
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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Pain Coming Conscious Without
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Debt Play Owe Imagination
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Rest Error Truth Knowledge
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Vain Intellect Hand Mystery
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Look Depend Thing How
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Hang Talent Dangerous Great
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Inferno Pass Through Passion
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An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Heart Enough Brilliant Gratitude
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Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Power Love Shadow Rule
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Love Play Creative Mind
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The rational attitude which permits us to declare objective values as valid at all is not the work of the individual subject, but the product of human history.

Human Subject Declare Rational
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Least Life Worth Greatest
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To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Right Problem Solution Ask
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To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

Dream Part Nature Intention
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The capacity for directed thinking I call intellect; the capacity for passive or undirected thinking I call intellectual intuition.

Passive Capacity Intuition Intellect
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Between Human Qualities Little
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I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.

Fact Individual Mind Avoid
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Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality.

Power Rest Turn Moral
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whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

Apply Good Lacking Supply
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That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves.

Compel Create Subtitute External
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A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

Dream Remain Understood Mere
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A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

Special Ability Heavy Energy
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Pretend Understand World Intellect
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If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.
Lonely Knows Man Becomes
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I regret many follies which sprang from my obstinacy; but without that trait I would not have reached my goal.

Regret Follies Sprang Obstinacy
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As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

Change Begin Single Individual
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Greatest Important Problem Outgrown
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When we consider the infinite variety of dreams, it is difficult to conceive that there could ever be a method or a technical procedure which would lead to an infallible result. It is, indeed, a good thing that no valid method exists for otherwise the meaning of the dream would be limited in advance and would lose precisely that virtue which makes dreams so valuable for therapeutic purposes – their ability to offer new points of view.

Infinite Dream Conceive Procedure
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

Because Change Deeds Fail
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Begin Change Disappearing History
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

Destroying Effectively Love Ourselves
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Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

Along Climbs Creative CreativePeople
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We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

Early Induced Infancy Trance
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
Adjustment Insane Insanity Perfectly
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Achieved Alienation Beings Destiny
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

Children Curiosity Easily Get
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There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

Condition Event Fact Label
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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Depends Life Living Love
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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.

Avoid Avoided Deal Great
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

Belongs Class Culture How
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

Assume Being False Feel
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

Also Breakdown Death Enslavement
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The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

Behavior Experience Gets Labeled
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Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Clear thinking Courage Intelligence
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If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

You talk God Praying Have
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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Happiness Imaginary condition Attributed Living
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Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.

Insanity Only sane Reaction Society
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Stupid Forgive Nor forget Naive
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