Quotes by Karen Horney - Page 1

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Funny
Inspirational
Life
Remains
Therapists
Very
Itself
Effective
Still
Therapist
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a normal human being ... does not exist.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Doe
Humans
Normal
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If I couldn't be pretty, I decided I would be smart.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Decided
Smart
Would Be
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Funny
Life
Civilization
Normal
Perfect
Witty
Rare
Normal Person
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Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Depression
Action
Concern
Drive
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miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Miracle
Psychiatry
Psychoanalysis
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Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Deception
May
Self
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Everyday
Morality
Thyself
Convention
Shalt
Thou
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There is no such thing as a normal psychology that holds for all people.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Normal
People
Psychology
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If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Accomplishment
Pride
Want
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Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Beneficial
Myself Me Why
Besides
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[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
War
Conflict
Torn
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There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Lasts
Reason Why
Why Not
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To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Areas
Self
Valuable
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Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Crush
Helpful
May
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Sincerely
Pray
Accordingly
Act
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Psychology
Deposit
Disappointments
Hitherto
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To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Life
Feelings
Giving
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The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Courses
Culture
Normal
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Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Life
Learning
Women
Analysis
Remains
Resolve
Spiritual
Very
Only
Itself
Conflicts
Effective
Still
Fortunately
Inner
Therapist
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Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Funny
Life
Point Of View
Psychology
Witty
Men Women View
Considered
Women Men View
Hitherto
Point
Sciences
View
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The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Agonizing
Simply
Stimulating
Escape
Searching
Selves
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Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Conflict
Human Life
Let Me
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We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Government
May
World
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No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Thinking
Vision
Way
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Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom - like success - carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Culture
Love Is
Needs
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The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Emotional
Responsibility
Self
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It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who is ... unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Women
Careers
Pay
Venture
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There's still such chaos in me. Still so little firmly outlined. Just like my face: a formless mass that only takes on shape through the expression of the moment. The searching for our selves is the most agonizing
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Expression
Self
Shapes
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The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings, one's work, one's beliefs.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Inspirational
Goal
Self
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Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual loses sight of himself; he feels, if he does not actually become, like a shadow without weight and substance.
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Self
Shadow
Sight
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Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Men
Creative
Creativity
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When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Breasts
Childbirth
Envy
Impression
Intensity
Motherhood
Pregnancy
Surprising
Experience Men Women
Fairly
Act
Analyze
Begins
Experience Women Men
Long Experience
Receives
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That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can be of great beauty, but they are rarely built for eternity, and frequently they cannot tolerate too heavy a burden without collapsing.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Love
Bridges
Loneliness
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Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Children
Christian
Honesty
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the idea of a finished human product not only appears presumptuous but even, in my opinion, lacks any strong appeal. Life is struggle and striving, development and growth - and analysis is one of the means that can help in this process. Certainly its positive accomplishments are important, but also the striving itself is of intrinsic value.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Mean
Strong
Struggle
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To experience conflicts knowingly, though it may be distressing, can be an invaluable asset. The more we face our own conflicts and seek out our own solutions, the more inner freedom and strength we will gain. Only when we are willing to bear the brunt can we approximate the ideal of being the captain of our ship. Spurious tranquillity rooted in inner dullness is anything but enviable. It is bound to make us weak and an easy prey to any kind of influence.
Karen Horney / Psychoanalyst
Bears
Faces
May
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