Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
The test of one’s behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man… it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
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