Intellectualization Defense Quotes & Sayings

I hung up again and looked at Katz. What is it with this town? I've blown more intelligent life into a handkerchief. — Bill Bryson

Slavery is ... an atrocious debasement of human nature. — Benjamin Franklin

When one person manages the money, the money manager tends to act as a parent, and the non-manager tends to act like a child. The parent is put in the position of saying "no" to the desires of the child, and the child acts resentfully toward the parent. This isn't exactly a recipe for relationship bliss. — Erik Wecks

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual — James Russell Lowell

There are some who do not learn, and who do not improve as fast as they might, because their eyes and their hearts are not upon God; they do not reflect neither do they have that knowledge which they might have; they miss a good deal which they might receive. We have got to obtain knowledge before we obtain permanent happiness; we have got to be wide awake in the things of God. — Lorenzo Snow

Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish. — Robert A. Heinlein

You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each other when they're asleep. These are the secret teachings. — Frederick Lenz

Change your stress, before it changes you! Restore your Freedom to Choose! — Richard D. Murphy

Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women
but all that stuff stopped. — Muhammad Ali

When you believe in someone, don't be in a rush to change your mind! — A.J. Harrison

Witchcraft is, and was, not ... for everyone. Unless you have an attraction to the occult, a sense of wonder, a feeling that you can slip for a few minutes out of the world into the world of faery, it is of no use to you. — Gerald Gardner