Psychiatrist

🇩🇪Carl Jung

Psychology

1852–1924

"You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return."

🇦🇹Viktor Frankl

Psychology

1905–1997

"There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life."

🇫🇷Frantz Fanon

Philosophy

decoloniality

1925–1961

"We are nothing on earth if we are not in the first place the slaves of a cause, the cause of the peoples, the cause of justice and liberty."

🇩🇪Max Ernst

Art

Surrealism

1891–1976

"The 2nd of April at 9:45 a.m. Max Ernst had his first contact with the sensible world, when he came out of the egg which his mother had laid in an eagle's nest and which the bird had brooded for seven years."

🇺🇸Boris Sidis

Psychology

1867–1923

"If ceaseless vigilance is the price of liberty, more so is it true that ceaseless criticism of ever new opinions and ever new views, however distasteful, bizarre, and paradoxical, is the price of truth."

🇭🇺Géza Révész

Military

1878–1955

"Ebbinghaus: Language is a system of conventional signs that can be voluntarily produced at any time."

🇦🇹Wilhelm Stekel

Psychology

1868–1940

"Candor is always a double-edged sword; it may heal or it may separate."

🇦🇹Eric Kandel

Medicine

b. 1929

"Because we do not have a sensory organ dedicated to space, the representation of space is a quintessentially cognitive sensibility: it is the binding problem writ large."

🇭🇺Thomas Szasz

Education

1920–2012

"Liberty and the Practice of Psychotherapy: An Interview with Thomas Szasz"

🇬🇧Anthony Storr

Psychology

1920–2001

"Reading his discourses made me realize that Rajneesh was a sad loss. He had an extraordinary range of knowledge and a vision of how life should be lived, but he proved incapable of following his own precepts."

🇦🇹Alfred Adler

Medicine

Neo-Freudianism

1870–1937

"Man knows much more than he understands."

Radovan Karadžić

Politics

b. 1945

"There is no doubt that the United States and Germany had their own interests in igniting wars in Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia."

Richard Maurice Bucke

Literature

1837–1902

"Collections at University of Western Ontario"

🇺🇸Aaron Beck

Psychology

1921–2021

"Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions."

🇺🇸Jacob M. Appel

Ethics

b. 1973

"Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the one person with whom you share the same internal chronometer."

🇺🇸Lauretta Bender

Psychology

1897–1987

"There's no such thing as a normal child."

🇺🇸Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Psychology

1926–2004

"Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death."

"There was no future and no past. The present was eternity."

🇨🇦Eric Berne

Psychology

1910–1970

"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing."

W. Ross Ashby

Science

1903–1972

"The concept of "variety" inseparable from that of "information."

"International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology"

🇺🇸Benjamin Rush

Social Activism

1746–1813

"Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights."

🇺🇸Neal D. Barnard

Literature

b. 1953

"As I began to move away from a meatheavy diet to a plantbased menu, it felt as if the doors to truly delicious foods were finally opening up."

🇦🇹Viktor E. Frankl

Psychology

1905–1997

"We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies."

🇨🇭Karl Jaspers

Philosophy

continental philosophy

1883–1969

"Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility."

"Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage."

Wilhelm Reich

Psychology

Freudo-Marxism

1897–1957

"Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena."

🇺🇸Karen Horney

Literature

1885–1952

"Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning."

"Life is each human being's workshop. If a man survives a lifetime with his creative capacities intact, he has done his part to make a better world for all men."

🇺🇸William Glasser

Psychology

1925–2013

"The Seven Deadly Habits of External Control: Blaming, Criticizing, Complaining, Nagging, Threatening, Punishing, and Bribing ."

🇺🇸Benjamin Spock

Sports

1903–1998

"In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering."

🇺🇸Wafa Sultan

Medicine

ر

b. 1958

"The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force."