America Quote by Karl A. Menninger

The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.

— John Cheever

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

— Howard Mumford Jones

“While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud’s work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the…

— Andrew Solomon

“Alas, he himself was a man too easily encouraged, too completely seduced by hope, only to be devastated by disappointment. He’d been born to…

— Richard Russo

“In Freud’s theory, the wish-producing, fear-generating power of these body parts lies within them, not, with their strategic position within a historically specific, male-dominant,…

— Jonathan Ned Katz

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the…

— Andrew Solomon

“...American psychology effectively guaranteed its place as a cultural icon by helping to create the pathologies it simultaneously promised to treat. (p. 37)”

— Alvin Dueck

“Freud believed that because the core of psychopathology was the repression of conflictual, infantile impulses, which sought disguised gratification from the analyst in many…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

— Stephen Leacock

“For he had learned tonight that love was not enough. There had to be a higher devotion than all the devotions of this fond…

— Thomas Wolfe

“I envied his inspiration, his optimism in focusing back on the painful but glorious days. They were caring days, when we knew what we…

— Bao Ninh

“The triumphant sense of security, of deliverance from overwhelming danger, that was what filled his whole soul that moment without thought for the future,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky