Quotes by Karen Horney

Karen Horney

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts … Every neurotic … is at war with himself.

Conflict

Torn

War

a normal human being … does not exist.

Doe

Humans

Normal

Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom – like success – carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems.

Culture

Love Is

Needs

If I couldn’t be pretty, I decided I would be smart.

Decided

Smart

Would Be

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

Accomplishment

Pride

Want

Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

Creative

Creativity

Men

It would not be going too far to assert that … conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who is … unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.

Careers

Venture

Women

Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict … Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

Conflict

Human Life

Let Me

No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time

Thinking

Vision

Way

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

Deception

May

Self

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Decided

Doe

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Feelings

Funny

Giving

Goal

Government

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Humans

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Let Me

Life

Loneliness

Love

Love Is

May

Men

Needs

Normal

People

Pride

Psychology

Responsibility

Self

Shapes

Smart

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Torn

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Want

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Quotes by Karen Horney

Karen Horney

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts … Every neurotic … is at war with himself.

a normal human being … does not exist.

Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom – like success – carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems.

If I couldn’t be pretty, I decided I would be smart.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

It would not be going too far to assert that … conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who is … unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.

Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict … Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

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