Quotes About Stekel

#1. People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding - a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

Wilhelm Stekel

#2. Love rarely overtakes; it mostly comes to meet us.

Wilhelm Stekel

#3. Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

Wilhelm Stekel

#4. Governments are best classified by considering who are the "somebodies" they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy.

Alfred North Whitehead

#5. Anxiety is the fear of one's self.

Wilhelm Stekel

#6. Truth is not always the best basis for happiness. There are certain lies which may constitute a far better and more secure foundation of happiness. There are people who perish when their eyes are opened.

Wilhelm Stekel

#7. Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it.

Mason Cooley

#8. The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one

Wilhelm Stekel

#9. In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.

Wilhelm Stekel

#10. The only suggestions I get on my plays is to make them more of what they already are, and that's wonderful.

Jesse Eisenberg

#11. I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

C.S. Lewis

#12. I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years.

Michael O'Leary

#13. It took me a while to understand that when you don't like someone, nothing they can say or do will ever seem right. Something as harmless as giving a kid a cookie becomes something aggressive, a challenge to their authority.

Alexandra Bracken

#14. Every fear is fear of death.

Wilhelm Stekel

#15. These two Joes - the nasty bully and the starry-eyed dreamer - were my father. Growing up, the difficulty was knowing just which Joe would rise with the sun that day.

Pythia Peay

#16. A gray day provides the best light.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#17. Lie faces God and shrikns from men

Francis Bacon

#18. The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

J.D. Salinger

#19. Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.

Wilhelm Stekel

#20. Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.

Wilhelm Stekel

#21. Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.

Wilhelm Stekel

#22. A person's heart is a disgusting thing. You almost can't look at it.

Victor Lodato