Otto Rank Quotes

#1. The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

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#2. Every human being is ... equally unfree, that is, we ... create out of freedom, a prison ...

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#3. We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church.

William Brewster

#4. There is already too much truth in the world - an overproduction which apparently cannot be consumed!

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#5. They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow ( Schlaukopf ) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.

Otto Von Bismarck

#6. Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.

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#7. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

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#8. Art is life's dream interpretation.

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#9. I remember sitting at the end of my mum's bed being fascinated by her ritual of getting dressed. It was a very methodical and considered process. I suppose you could say she was my first real muse.

Matthew Williamson

#10. The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?

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#11. In the psychical sphere there are no facts, but only interpretations of them.

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#12. I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how awesome the Arizona history is, especially for alternative music. Growing up, that's all I ever wanted to be was those two bands.

Nate Ruess

#13. It seems that life, in order to maintain itself, must revolt every so often against man's ceaseless attempts to master its irrational forces with his mind.

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#14. That day we held our hands and each other was indeed a beautiful dream. But, we all wake up in the end.

Luke Blaise Pereira

#15. Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.

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#16. For the only therapy is life. The patient must learn to live, to live with his split, his conflict, his ambivalence, which no therapy can take away, for if it could, it would take with it the actual spring of life.

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#17. To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation.

Tom Berenger

#18. Why me?"
"You have no idea how attractive you are to me. I kind of like that.

S.C. Stephens

#19. Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit ... the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by ones fellowmen.

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