“ The neurosis in which the search for safety takes its clearest form is in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis. Compulsive-obsessive to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear. ”
- Abraham Maslow- Copy
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“ No true Witches today practice human sacrafice, torture, or any form of ritual murder.Anyone who does is not a Witch, but a psychopath. ”
- Starhawk- Copy
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“ History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. ”
- Anatole France- Copy
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“ A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. ”
- Jerome Lawrence- Copy
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“ Virgo, and a real Virgo. Nit picky, cranky, cantankerous, fidgety, neurotic. All of the above, but that's good. ”
- Jay London- Copy
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“ Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. ”
- Martin Golding- Copy
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“ We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them. ”
- Lillian Hellman- Copy
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“ A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
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“ I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do. ”
- Ruth Rendell- Copy
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“ Everything great that we know has come from neurotics never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
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“ The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. ”
- Lionel Trilling- Copy
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“ Chicken Soup: An ancient miracle drug containing equal parts of aureomycin, cocaine, interferon, and TLC. The only ailment chicken soup can't cure is neurotic dependence on one's mother. ”
- Arthur Naiman- Copy
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“ The neurotic and the artist - since both live out the unconscious of the race - reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on. ”
- Rollo May- Copy
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“ Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. ”
- Marlon Brando- Copy
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“ Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
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“ Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable. ”
- Ntozake Shange- Copy
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“ Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. ”
- Rita Rudner- Copy
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“ Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. ”
- Sylvia Plath- Copy
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“ Most of my stand-up comedy is about being a small, scared, neurotic individual among the billions of other small, scared, neurotic individuals that make up the mass which is us. I always think the first target of a stand-up comic should be themselves-we all share our weaknesses, and it's fun to use them as a source of comedy. ”
- Ben Elton- Copy
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“ The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. ”
- Georges Bataille- Copy
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“ Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. ”
- Thomas Szasz- Copy
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“ There is a difference between being a hacker and the socially inadequate computer geek vision of the press. It's definitely true that there is a lot of overlap. A lot of good hackers are, however, members of the human race and know what is going on in the real world. ”
- Alan Cox- Copy
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