Quotes by Albert Ellis

Albert Ellis

And just as two wrongs don’t make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.

Hate

Trying

Two

As a matter of fact, as a result of my philosophy, I wasn’t even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn’t hate him. I hated what he was doing.

Hate

Philosophy

War

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn’t even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn’t hate him. I hated what he was doing.

Hate

Philosophy

War

Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.

Acceptance

Self Esteem

Views

Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when they don’t hold them, and the more strongly they hold them, the more disturbed they tend to be.

Belief

People

Study

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

Errors

Failure

Past

By not caring too much about what people think, I’m able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

Bullying

Kids

Wise

Failure doesn’t have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.

Failure

Intrinsic Value

Persons

Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, “Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear.” Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up.

Food

Personality

Stupid

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

Dependency

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Acceptance

Accepting

Accomplishment

Adversity

Analysts

Animal

Anxiety

Around The World

Art

Aspect

Assessment

Attitude

Belief

Believe

Bleeding

Book

Boss

Bothering You

Bullying

Certain

Children

Criticism

Damn

Degrees

Dependency

Diaries

Done

Dying

Easy

Elements

Emotion

Emotional

Encouragement

Errors

Evaluation

Failure

Feel Better

Feelings

Fighting

Flying

Food

Form

Frustration

Get Better

Giving

Goal

Goes On

Growth

Guilt

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Quotes by Albert Ellis

Albert Ellis

And just as two wrongs don’t make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.

As a matter of fact, as a result of my philosophy, I wasn’t even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn’t hate him. I hated what he was doing.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn’t even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn’t hate him. I hated what he was doing.

Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.

Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when they don’t hold them, and the more strongly they hold them, the more disturbed they tend to be.

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

By not caring too much about what people think, I’m able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

Failure doesn’t have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

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