Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!
There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.
There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.
I remember feeling, 'If you do not leave now, you won't leave with your soul intact.'
I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.
High-stakes lying is out of control. And it's costing us big bucks in one way or another. It's not simply a matter of quantifying losses in dollars. It's costing us emotionally and psychologically as well.
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.
Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.
If you battle monsters, you don't always become a monster. But you aren't entirely human anymore, either.
In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.
What you try to bury just ends up burying you.
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.
The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.
