Adjustment Quote by Sigmund Freud

“Man is not a 'fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant'. He changed drastically when he developed 'divided consciousness' to cope with…

— Colin Wilson

Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his strong tendencies…

— William James

From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it. The fight…

— Margaret Halsey

Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural…

— Benjamin Hoff

We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.

— John Dewey

It is desire that impels man to lose his discrimination and understanding, and thus commit wrong actions.

— Senora Roy

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

— Edmund Burke

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“We are being called upon to act against a prevailing culture, to undermine our own entrenched tendency to accumulate and to consume, and to…

— Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be…

— Robert Kegan