Crosses Quote by Alfred Adler

“If a person is plagued by religious doubts,as many are in their youth, he takes to persecuting unbelievers; if troubled by love, he turns…

— Robert Musil

...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

— Anonymous

Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control.…

— Carl Jung

No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to…

— Karen Horney

After all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing the world.…

— David Eagleman

Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without…

— Thomas de Quincey

If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the reality of…

— William Irwin Thompson

Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of…

— Plato

You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate…

— Abraham Maslow

A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever…

— Gautama Buddha

I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The essence of…

— Doris Lessing