Kohut Self Quotes & Sayings

Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice. — Lysander Spooner

I regret what I did but it was in my personal time and I therefore hope that it does not reflect on the show — Richard Bacon

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell — Heinz Kohut

The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time! — Heinz Kohut

The physicist takes water, abstracts its quantitatively measurable aspects, reaches results about these aspects, and ignores the rest. — Fulton J. Sheen

Man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen. — Heinz Kohut

If you want to hurt somebody and you want to know where his vulnerable spot is you have to know him, before you can put in the right dig, that's very important. — Heinz Kohut

There's nothing wrong in dreaming. Right? Without dreaming, this life would actually resemble any circular phenomenon in which you start from a point, wander around the circle, and finally reach at the starting point again without any new discovery! — Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

I think fidelity is absolutely important, especially in the acting industry, which is littered with broken relationships because people are away filming for months. — Raza Jaffrey

No one knows better than anyone else how to live. — Harold Johnson

A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities - never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked. — John Steinbeck

If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my patients tell me is likely to be true - that many times when I believed that I was right and my patients were wrong, it turned out, though often only after a prolonged search, that my rightness was superficial whereas their rightness was profound. — Heinz Kohut

At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting. — Billy Corgan

It was not in me It came and went I wanted to hold it It was held by wine (I no longer know what it was) — Rainer Maria Rilke

East Germany may have been a giant penitentiary administrated by the Russians, the Stasi may have embodied the worst excesses of German authority and bureaucratic thoroughness, and anyone with brains and spirit may have fled the country before the Wall went up, but the inmates who'd remained behind to expiate the country's collective guilt had paradoxically been liberated from their Germanness (...) Humble, unpunctual, spontaneous, and generous with what little they had. (...) their real loyalties were to one other, not to the state. — Jonathan Franzen

Have we found out about those losers yet? — Evelyn Smith

The Hamsters really kick ass - Slim is one of your greatest guitar players — Walter Trout

Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn't be overlooked. — Thomas Hughes

The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they all portray the break up of the self and, through the rearrangement and reassemble of the fragments, try to create new structures that possess wholeness, perfection, new meaning. — Heinz Kohut

Your courage is there right alongside of your fear. — Sanna Anderson