Georg Groddeck Quotes

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?'

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?

Destiny, or karma, depends upon what the soul has done about what it has become aware of.

May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others

To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.

Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.

Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is.

That which you condemn will condemn you, and that which you judge, you will one day become.

Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.

My conscience is clear.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn.

What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.

If I am to judge others, I should be subject to be judged. You make your bed, you must lie in it.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.