Wilhelm Stekel Quotes

#1. The clitoris contains 8,000 nerve endings. It makes it easy to have sex. With yourself.

Dannii Minogue

#2. Forgive the pessimism, if not the sonority. But I know how much you demand from a thing, you little bastard.

J.D. Salinger

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

Wilhelm Stekel

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

Wilhelm Stekel

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

Wilhelm Stekel

#6. 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

#7. Every fear is fear of death.

Wilhelm Stekel

#8. 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

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

Wilhelm Stekel

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

Wilhelm Stekel

#11. A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

Harold Pinter

#12. You want to stay hungry...to learn. You get full, you get sleepy, lazy; you get lazy, you don't learn.

Gary Paulsen

#13. 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

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

Wilhelm Stekel

#15. Recently we received an invitation that proved just that.

Brandon Stanton

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

Wilhelm Stekel

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

Wilhelm Stekel