Psychoanalysis Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what…

— Van Wyck Brooks

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

From here, far away, people seem very good, and that is natural, for in going away into the country we are not hiding from…

— Anton Chekhov

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your…

— Andrew Sarris

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

— Walter Benjamin

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.

— Jacques Derrida

In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and…

— Simone de Beauvoir

In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People…

— Eric Kandel

Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do…

— Seneca the Younger

For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis.

— CS Lewis

Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion,…

— Sheila Jeffreys

If there's a lot of fear that's going on, if there's a lot of anxiety, it's manifesting itself in your nocturnal world so that…

— Shelby Harris

A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled…

— Edward Abbey