Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want.

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.

A major contributor to the present-day tendency to accept and encourage homosexuality is Dr. Sigmund Freud.

I've been on this earth for sixty-six years, and I've reached a conclusion and it's a fact: women are strange creatures.

I suppose you could say that I majored in men and minored in psychology.

My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.

Freud is finished, Einstein's next.

Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.

Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.

The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway.

Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.

I've always found women more interesting than men.

Le mot 'psychologie'est un de ceux qu'aucun auteur d'aujourd'hui ne peut entendre prononcer a' son sujet sans baisser les yeux et rougir. The word 'psychology' is one that no author today can hear said about her work without lowering her eyes and blushing.

People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest in the human mechanism and the human psyche and what makes people tick. And yes, I think I'm particularly creative and adventurous and improvisational and spontaneous in my inner impulses and patterns and deeply curious and appetized in the unfathomably mysterious and delicious phenomena that is the human being and who we really are.

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. Had I not been a therapist, I would have been an efficiency expert.

Every neurotic is partly in the right.