Occupation: Psychoanalyst Birth: September 8, 1897 Death: August 28, 1979
The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death..
The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire..
It is very important to be aware that you may never be satistied with your analytic career if you feel that you are restricted to what is narrowly ca….
To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage..
Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no further consequence: it is eit….
Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others..
The road to Hades is easy to travel..
We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it..
Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom..
If a new result is to have any value, it must unite elements long since known, but till then scattered and seemingly foreign to each other, and sudde….
It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissim….
Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it..
To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill..
Wealth is the sinews of affairs..
Old age is the harbor of all ills..
A good leader makes a good follower..