-Karen Horney
Related Posts
- “A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.”
- “Experience comes to man in many more forms than are commonly recognized by the professional experimenter or the seeker after explicit knowledge. We would destroy the foundations of much successful action if we disdained to rely on ways of doing things evolved by the process of trial and error simply because the reason for their adoption has not been handed down to us. The appropriateness of our conduct is not necessarily dependent on our knowing why it is so. Such understanding is one way of making our conduct appropriate, but not the only one.”
- “Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.”
- “There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to portend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendancy.”
- “When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.”