Psychologists

“What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.”

“Die Wahrheit über unsere Kindheit ist in unserem Körper gespeichert, und obwohl wir sie verdrängen können, können wir sie nie verändern.”

“The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill.”

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it.”

“It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.”

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.”

“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.”

“Ultimately, we must each find our own way, and that is the existential challenge of life.”

“Le désir de l'homme est le désir de l'Autre.”

“Desire is the desire of the Other.”

“The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.”

“The neurotic personality of our time is characterized not by specific symptoms but by a particular kind of inner conflict — a conflict between contradictory sets of values and desires that have been internalized from contradictory cultural demands.”

“Мысль не выражается в слове, но совершается в нём.”

“Thought is not merely expressed in words; it comes into existence through them. Every thought tends to connect something with something else, to establish a relationship between things.”

“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times — although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them. The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.”

“In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.”

“Insanity — a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.”

“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.”

“Gegen sich ganz ehrlich zu sein, ist eine gute Übung.”

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”

“The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.”

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

“The stream of thinking is not a chain of discrete ideas, but a continuous flow in which every image, feeling, and thought melts into the next. Consciousness does not appear to itself chopped up in bits; it flows.”