Quotes by Neurologists

When others' obsessions are not ours, we are sad for them, and we talk of how empty their lives will be if they don't achieve their empty goal: the gymnastics prize, the firm partnership. But there is a monomania in which it is the focus, the sense of transport, that is the real pleasure.
Alice W. Flaherty
The great question which I have not been able to answer despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul is "what does a woman want"?
Sigmund Freud
Analogies it is true decide nothing but they can make one feel more at home.
Sigmund Freud
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud
A prudent person profits from personal experience a wise one from the experience of others.
Dr. Joseph Collins
When a man is freed of religion he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
Sigmund Freud
Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.
Sigmund Freud
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies quite unlike people who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations.
Sigmund Freud
I learned really to practice mustard seed faith and positive thinking and remarkable things happened.
Sir John Walton
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud
When a man is freed of religion he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
Sigmund Freud
Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.
Sigmund Freud
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies quite unlike people who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations.
Sigmund Freud
I learned really to practice mustard seed faith and positive thinking and remarkable things happened.
Sir John Walton
A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Sigmund Freud
Symptoms then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs.
Jean-Martin Charcot
Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get in accord with them they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world.
Sigmund Freud
Chance favors those in motion.
Dr. James H. Austin
Life as we find it is too hard for us it entails too much pain too many disappointments impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.
Sigmund Freud
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud
A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.
Sigmund Freud
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud
It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.
Sigmund Freud
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Sigmund Freud
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
Sigmund Freud
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
Sigmund Freud
Courage in the final analysis is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
Dr. Kurt Goldstein
One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud
When making a decision of minor importance I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters however such as the choice of a mate or a profession the decision should come from the unconscious from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life we should be governed I think by the deep inner needs of our nature.
Sigmund Freud
Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
Sigmund Freud
Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.
Sigmund Freud
Only if you follow the realism of science rather than the Hollywood fantasy of romance, will you achieve True Love
Fred Nour
In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.
Sigmund Freud
I want my children to know what I stood for. I want to be remembered as a person who fought injustice. Suzanne Ahn
Suzanne Ahn
In reality, man is a mosaic of wills; and the will of each instinct, each desire, each purpose, is the intensity of that instinct, desire or purpose.
Myerson Abraham Myerson
I always knew there was no one who is going to accept my flaws and understand my brokenness.And i knew it very well that nobody would hold my hand when the wind of darkness overcome my life so i just pushed them,i pushed them all away.
Carl W. Bazil
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Sigmund Freud
Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.
Sigmund Freud
First do no harm. -HippocratesSecond, do some good. -Anne M. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D.
Anne M. Lipton
All my patients are individuals with their own story to tell, their own set of problems and their own solution. Even where the symptoms of their distress are very similar, the roads that bring them to me are not. Each of them teaches me something important, just as each new patient I meet reminds me that there is always more to learn.
Suzanne O'Sullivan
This existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
Victor Frankl Auschwitz
If the students were taught about shuttle flights, plate tectonics and submarine volcanoes, they were also immersed in the traditional myths of their culture—the ancient story, for example, of how the island of Pohnpei had been built under the direction of a mystical octopus, Lidakika. (I was fascinated by this, for it was the only cephalopod creation myth I had ever heard.
Oliver Sacks
Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation.
Sigmund Freud
One thus gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature or civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed. And in fact it is not difficult to indicate those defects. While mankind has made continual advances in its control over nature and may expect to make still greater ones, it is not possible to establish with certainty that a similar advance has been made in the management of human affairs; and probably at all periods, just as now once again, many people have asked themselves whether what little civilization has thus acquired is indeed worth defending at all. One would think that a re-ordering of human relations should be possible, which would remove the sources of dissatisfaction with civilization by renouncing coercion and the suppression of the instincts, so that, undisturbed by internal discord, men might devote themselves to the acquisition of wealth and its enjoyment. That would be a golden age, but it is questionable if such a state of affairs can be realized. It seems rather that every civilization must be built upon coercion and renunciation of instinct; it does not even seem certain that if coercion were to cease the majority of human beings would be prepared to undertake to perform the work necessary for acquiring new wealth. One has, I think, to reckon with the fact that there are present in all men destructive, and therefore anti-social and anti-cultural, trends and that in a great number of people these are strong enough to determine their behavior in human society.
Sigmund Freud
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....
Sigmund Freud
It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour.
Sigmund Freud
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
Sigmund Freud
The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.
Sigmund Freud
A vigorous mind shut out from outer stimuli finds in this circumstance the time to develop leisurely, finds a freedom from distraction that leads to clear views of life and a proper expression.
Abraham Myerson
There was an irony and a paradox here: Franco thought of Pontito constantly, saw it in fantasy, depicted it, as infinitely desirable – and yet he had a profound reluctance to return. But it is precisely such a paradox that lies at the heart of nostalgia – for nostalgia is about a fantasy that never takes place, one that maintains itself by not being fulfilled. And yet such fantasies are not just idle daydreams or fancies; they press toward some fulfillment, but an indirect one - the fulfillment of art. These, at least, are the terms that D. Geahchan, the French psychoanalyst, has used. With reference in particular to the greatest of nostalgies, Proust, the psychoanalyst David Werman speaks of an 'aesthetic crystallization of nostalgia' - nostalgia raised to the level of art and myth.
Oliver Sacks
…much will be gained if we succeed in transforming your hysterical misery into common unhappiness. With a mental life that has been restored to health, you will be better armed against that unhappiness.
Sigmund Freud
What do you think science is? There's nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and using consistent logic to evaluate results. Which part of that exactly do you disagree with? Do you disagree with being thorough? Using careful observation? Being systematic? Or using consistent logic?
Steven Novella
I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.
Sigmund Freud
I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
Sigmund Freud
We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.
Sigmund Freud
The real functional "machinery" of the brain, for Edelman, consists of millions of neuronal groups, organized into larger units or "maps". These maps, continually conversing in everchanging, unimaginably complex, but always meaningful patterns, may change in minutes or seconds. One is reminded of C. S. Sherrington's poetic evocation of the brain as "an enchanted loom", where "millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one; a shifting harmony of subpatterns".
Oliver Sacks
It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ
Roger Bannister
At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.
Oliver Sacks