Karen Horney Quotes

‘The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.’ – Karen Horney

‘Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.’ – Karen Horney

‘When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.’ – Karen Horney

‘The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.’ – Karen Horney

‘Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.’ – Karen Horney

‘Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.’ – Karen Horney

‘The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn’t it? – and yet the most stimulating – and one simply cannot escape it.’ – Karen Horney

‘Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.’ – Karen Horney

‘Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.’ – Karen Horney

‘Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.’ – Karen Horney