Immanuel Kant Quotes

Immanuel Kant

All our knowledge begins with the senses,

proceeds then to the understanding,
and ends with reason.

There is nothing higher than reason.

All the interests of my reason,

speculative as well as practical,

combine in the three following questions:

1. What can I know?
2. What ought I to do?
3. What may I hope?

But although all our knowledge begins with experience,

it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Experience without theory is blind,

but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

He who is cruel to animals becomes
hard also in his dealings with men.

We can judge the heart of
a man by his treatment of animals.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use
one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Science is organized knowledge.
Wisdom is organized life.

Thoughts without content are empty,
intuitions without concepts are blind.

Carl Jung on dream

Carl G Jung

As against Freud's view that 

the dream is essentially a wish-fulfillment,

I hold that the dream is a spontaneous self-portrayal,

in symbolic form, 

of the actual situation in the unconscious.

I have no theory about dreams,
I do not know how dreams arise.

And I am not at all sure that -

my way of handling dreams even
deserves the name of a "method." 

The dream shows the inner truth and

reality of the patient as it really is:

not as I conjecture it to be,

and not as he would like it to be, but as it is.

The view that dreams are merely the imaginary fulfillments of repressed wishes is 

hopelessly out of date.

There are, it is true,

dreams which manifestly represent wishes or fears, 
but what about all the other things?

Dreams may contain ineluctable truths, philosophical pronouncements, illusions, wild fantasies, memories, plans, anticipations, irrational experiences,

even telepathic visions, 

and heaven knows what besides.

I leave theory aside

as much as possible

when analyzing dreams -

not entirely, of course, 

for we always need some

theory to make things intelligible.

It is on the basis of theory, for instance, 

that I expect dreams to have a meaning.

I cannot prove in every case that this is so,

for there are dreams which the doctor

and the patient simply do not understand.

But I have to make such an hypothesis in order

to find courage to deal with dreams at all.

Every interpretation is an hypothesis, 

an attempt to read an unknown text.

An obscure dream, taken in isolation, 

can hardly ever be interpreted with any certainty.

For this reason I attach little importance

to the interpretation of single dreams.

A relative degree of certainty is reached only

in the interpretation of a series of dreams,

where the later dreams correct the mistakes we

have made in handling those that went before.

Also, the basic ideas and themes can be

recognized much better in a dream-series.

Never apply any theory, 

but always ask the patient how

he feels about his dream images.

For dreams are always about a 

particular problem of the individual about

which he has a wrong conscious judgment.

The dreams are the reaction to our

conscious attitude in the same way that

the body reacts when we overeat or

do not eat enough or when we

ill-treat it in some other way.

Dreams are the natural reaction of

the self-regulating psychic system.

William Glasser Quotes

William Glasser

Everybody needs one essential friend.

If everyone could learn that what is right for

me does not make it right for anyone else,

the world would be a much happier place.

If you want to change attitudes,

start with a change in behavior.

This is at the heart of all good education,

where the teacher asks students to think
and engages them in encouraging dialogues,

constantly checking for understanding and growth.

We almost always have choices,

and the better the choice,

the more we will be in control of our lives.

We are driven by five genetic needs:

survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

Don't marry someone you would not be friends

with if there was no sex between you.

Sex is on the minds of most people,

especially those who shouldn't be having it.

Albert Ellis Quotes

The late Dr Albert Ellis

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally,

whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.

There's no evidence whatsoever that

men are more rational than women.

Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

If something is irrational, 
that means it won't work.

It's usually unrealistic.

There are three musts that hold us back:

I must do well.

You must treat me well.

And the world must be easy.

We teach people that they upset themselves.

We can't change the past,

so we change how people are
thinking, feeling and behaving today.

You largely constructed your depression.

It wasn't given to you.

Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

I wish that the Adversity had not occurred and
I don't like it but I can live with it.

Let me do my best to change the unfortunate condition or

accept it and live with it if I truly find that I can't change it.

Whining about how awful it is will only make it
seem worse than bad and make me feel more miserable!

Why should I live up to any other individual's standards?

Unconditional self-acceptance is the basic antidote
to much of your depressed self-downing feelings.

The goals of psychotherapy are twofold:

to help clients disturb themselves less emotionally and

to enable them to lead happier and more fulfilling lives.

Unless they achieve the first of these goals,
attaining the second one is,

while not impossible, damned difficult!

If people want to change their Irrational Bs,
which lead to self-defeating Consequences,

to Rational Bs, which lead to self-helping Consequences,

they had better work on
their Believing-Emoting-Behaving and
not merely on their Believing.

More specifically, they had better vigorously and forcefully
(that is, emotively) change their dysfunctional Bs;
and at the same time,
they forcefully and persistently feel and act against them.

There is no magic, no free lunch.

Self-change, while almost always possible,
requires persistent work and practice.

Try to create a vital meaning and absorbing interest in your
life that you adapt from others or mainly construct yourself.

Dedicate yourself, but not rigidly,
to developing and following your meaning.

Have acceptance that your present path is not likely to work,

acceptance that hassles will still exist,

acceptance that you had better try a different path,

and acceptance that the new path (or any new paths)
may still not work.

Frankly, the universe doesn't give a hoot for your desires,
and has no personal interest in you. 

Disputing your self-defeating,
irrational beliefs is one of the
main and most helpful methods of REBT.

If one thinks that failing makes one a complete failure,

this is an illogical jump,

because a complete failure would have to fail at
everything and one surely does not do that.

A complete failure would also be doomed to
fail in the future which cannot be proven.

Viktor Frankl Quotes

Viktor E. Frankl

Challenging the meaning of life is the
truest expression of the state of being human.

Ever more people today have the means to live,

but no meaning to live for.

Everything can be taken from a man
or a woman but one thing:

the last of human freedoms to choose

one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,

to choose one's own way.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented 
by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

When we are no longer able to change a situation -

we are challenged to change ourselves.

Carl Jung Quotes II

Carl G Jung

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

The doctor is only effective when he himself is affected.
Only the wounded physician heals.

It all depends on how we look at things,

and not how they are in themselves.

Every form of addiction is bad,

no matter whether the narcotic
be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

We should know what our convictions are,
and stand for them.

Upon one's own philosophy,
conscious or unconscious,

depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts.

Therefore it is wise to be
as clear as possible about one's subjective principles.

As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one,
but from being unable to communicate
the things that seems important to oneself,
or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

Alan Shore - Quotes

Alan Shore (James Spader)

----- Alan Shore in general -----

Alan Shore:
This is Alan Shore.
If you're a criminal please state your name and
the nature of your crime at the sound of the tone.

Sally: Is that fair?
Alan Shore: I don't understand the question.

Alan Shore:
Let me tell you two things about myself.
I too am a lawyer, I can be terribly vindictive, and I do not play fair.
Lester Tremont: That's three things.
Alan Shore: See? Not playing fair already.

Alan Shore:
Here’s the thing about me.
I am a hoot.
But I insist on putting adversary back into the system.
And I do it openly and notoriously for all to hear.

Alan Shore:
You have a job to do, and so do I.
Yours is to sell socks and suspenders.
Mine is to cross examine people like you and crush them.

Alan Shore:
Hate to extort and run but I'm afraid I'm going to need an answer on this now.

Alan Shore:
Hello big people, gee you are a strapping fellow.
Here's 300 dollars, would you be so kind as to hit that man down there?

Alan Shore: I'm a man of principles.. or not.. depends really on the situation..

Alan Shore:
My filing system isn't that difficult.
I throw everything out.

----- Alan Shore with the judges -----

Judge:
Mr. Shore, while you are a gifted attorney,
you bring embarrassment and shame to the legal community.
Alan Shore : You're very kind, sir.

-> Mr. Shore how do you plead.
Alan Shore: Not guilty by reason of the district attorney's insanity.
-> That's not a real plea!
Alan Shore: Not guilty then.

Alan Shore: I am sorry your honour, this woman is clearly a Jew
Judge: You object to her being Jewish!?
Alan Shore: I'm sure somebody here must!

Alan Shore:
Your Honor, at this time I move for a directed finding of Not Guilty.
The prosecution's failed to meet it's burden of proof, and
Judge Clark Brown: Denied!
Alan Shore:
Okay.
I move to remove you on the grounds of horrible judging.
There's a pattern of it, actually.

Judge Fuller: have you lost your mind?
Alan Shore:
More times than I care to mention, judge.
And it seems like each time with a different woman.
Are you free for lunch?
Judge Fuller:
Mr. Shore,
it would be not be wise to make sexual advances,
I tend to accept them.
Could we turn to the case?
Alan Shore:
I've completely forgotten what it's about.
Your honor, perhaps you could refresh me? over lunch?

----- Alan Shore relationship with Denny Crane -----

Denny:
Ohh, I wish you and I were getting married. That's you and I.
Both of us.To others.
I'm not gay.
Alan Shore: I understood you the first Freudian slip.

Denny: She dumped you?
Alan Shore: Well, I think we're looking for different things.
Denny: What are you looking for? A serious relationship?
Alan Shore: Don't be silly. I'm already involved with you.
Denny: You're damn right.

Denny Crane: My balls hurt.
Alan Shore: Let's have that be the first and last time you ever tell me that.

----- Alan Shore with the partners -----

Edwin Poole (enters not wearing any pants): Sorry I'm late good people.
Alan Shore: Is it causal Monday?

Paul Lewiston: There's no opportunity to plead this out?
Alan Shore:
Only if I plead guilty which is, of course, unacceptable.
I have to worry about a three strikes law since I plan to commit future crimes.

Alan Shore (to Paul):
There's a legal term for this.
Oh, yes! Uuh...

Alan Shore:
I'm giving notice, I believe two weeks is standard.
Now step aside Paul before I push you to the ground and go to the bathroom on you.

Brad Chase: Uh, I think that's my seat.
Alan Shore:
Yes, I did see someone's things here.
I moved them to a less desirable location.
[Brad gives him a smirky stare.]
Alan Shore:
I'm sorry.
We're not territorial about that sort of thing around here, are we?

Brad: I out rank you.
Alan Shore: And I'm such a slut for authority.

Alan Shore (to Brad): Do you do tongue push-ups?

Alan Shore:
Hey Brad!Altogether now!
Everyone in the room: "LESBIANS!!

Brad Chase: Feel free to mock me all you want but don't you dare ridicule our troops.
Alan Shore: Just so I'm clear, I should feel free to mock you.

----- Alan Shore with ladies in office -----

Alan Shore:
I make all my female employees sign sexual harassment waivers,
especially the pretty ones.
Shirley:
I don't think that document would hold up in court but, regardless,
that kind of behavior isn't tolerated at Crane, Poole, and Schmidt.
Alan Shore: Which... kind of behavior? Specifically.
Shirley: I think you're smart enough to sense where the line is, council.
Alan Shore: I'm never sure until I cross it.

Shirley:
She is a subordinate, there is a disparity of power,
you will refrain from any sexual advances: verbal or otherwise.
Alan Shore:
Shirley... what about senior partners?
There would be nothing wrong with me lusting, say,
after you, would there?
Shirley:
Go subscribe to National Geographic.
Make a list of all the places you'll never get to visit.
Add to that list: Schmidt.

Alan Shore (to Lori): You disapprove of me. That warms my cockles.

Sally: I will beat you one day.
Alan Shore: I'd rather be flogged

----- Alan Shore with the District Attorney (DA), ADA & Police -----

Alan Shore:
Actually, I prefer to be called Shirley.
It gives me a tickle.

Alan Shore: Request bail.
A.D.A Christopher Palmer: Bail? Are you kidding?
Alan Shore: This is my kidding face.
*flashes a silly smile*
Alan Shore:
This is my mean it face.
Watch again.
Request bail.

Police Man: Did anybody just come in here?
Alan Shore: Is he a criminal?
Police Man: He's a homicide suspect.
Alan Shore:
Homicide! My God!
Do you know what you've done?
We represent murderers here!
It's quite possible the man you speak of came into this building to hire us.
With the six of you?
Guns out?
Now he'll never come in.
Bad policeman, very bad!

Jung's View Of His Own Work

Carl G Jung

Source: The Wisdom of Carl Jung

Anyone who says that I am a mystic is just an idiot.
He just doesn't understand the first word of psychology.

I do not feel called upon to found a religion,
nor to proclaim my belief in one.
I am not engaged in philosophy,
but merely in thinking within the framework of 
the special task that is laid upon me:
to be a proper psychiatrist,
a healer of the soul.

I cannot force people to take my work seriously,
and I cannot persuade them to study it really.
The trouble is that I don't
construct theories one can learn by heart.
I collect facts which are not
yet generally known or properly appreciated,
and I gave names to observations
and experiences unfamiliar to the contemporary mind
and objectionable to its prejudices.

For your orientation,
I am a psychiatrist and not a philosopher:
merely an empiricist who ponders on certain experiences.

Being a scientist,
I prefer not to be a prophet if I can help it.

If the whole world disagrees with me,
it is perfectly indifferent to me.

I cannot say I have a Freudian psychology because 
I never had such difficulties in relation to desires...
To talk of an incest complex just bores me to tears.

Religions, Myths and Philosophy

Carl G Jung

Source: The Wisdom of Carl Jung

I always think of psychology as
encompassing the whole of the psyche,
and that includes philosophy and theology and 
many other things besides.
For underlying all philosophies and 
all religions are the facts of the human soul,
which may ultimately be the arbiters of truths and errors.

Every theologian speaks simply of "God,"
by which he intends it to be understood that his "god" is the God.

So long as religion is only faith and outward form,
and the religious function is not experienced in our own souls,
nothing of any importance has happened.

We are, surely, the rightful heirs of Christian symbolism,
but somehow we have squandered this heritage.
We have let the house of our fathers built fall into decay,
and now we try to break into
Oriental palaces that our fathers never knew.

Everything has its history,
everything has "grown," and Christianity,
which is supposed to have appeared suddenly 
as a unique revelation from heaven,
undoubtedly also has its history.

We Europeans are not the only people on earth.
We are just a peninsula of Asia,
and on that continent there are old civilizations where
people have trained their minds in 
introspective psychology for thousands of years,
whereas we began our psychology not
even yesterday but only this morning.

What are religions?
Religions are psychotherapeutic systems.
What are we doing, we psychotherapists?
We are trying to heal the suffering of the human mind,
of the human psyche or the human soul,
and religions deal with the same problem.

The Art of Psychotherapy

Carl G Jung

Source: The Wisdom of Carl Jung

A person entrusted with the care of souls ought to have 

a certain wisdom of life which does not consist of words only, 
but chiefly of experience.

The greatest mistake an analyst can make is to assume that
his patient has a psychology similar to his own.

We cannot demand of our patients a faith which
they do reject because they do not understand it, 
or which does not suit them 
even though we may hold it ourselves.

First of all, one has to accept and to take seriously into account
the existence of the shadow.

Anybody whose calling it is to guide souls 
should have his own soul guided first,
so that he knows what it means to deal with the human soul.

It is of course, 
essential for the psychotherapist to have 
a fair knowledge of himself,
for anyone who does not understand himself 
cannot understand others and
can never be psychotherapeutically effective unless 
he has first treated himself with the same medicine.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for
dealing with the darkness of the other people.

For psychotherapy to be effective, 
a close rapport is needed,
so close that the doctor cannot shut his eyes
to the heights and depths of human suffering.

When I am treating a man,
I must be exceedingly careful not to knock
him down with my views or my personality,
because he has to fight his lonely fight through life and
he must be able to trust in his very incomplete armor and
in his own perhaps very imperfect aim.

Carl Jung Quotes

Carl G Jung

The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me.

I don't believe.
I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis.

Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,

and if a man does not know what a thing is,

it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.



Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,

and the word happy would lose its meaning 
if it were not balanced by sadness.

It is far better take things as 
they come along with patience and equanimity.
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal

which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. 

As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.