Quotes

“I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.” Albert Ellis

“I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.” Albert Ellis

“I hope to die in the saddle seat.” Albert Ellis

“If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.” Albert Ellis

“Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.” Albert Ellis

“I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.” Albert Ellis

“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.” Albert Ellis

“I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.” Albert Ellis

“In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.” Albert Ellis

“I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.” Albert Ellis

“I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.” Albert Ellis

“I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.” Albert Ellis

“Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.” Albert Ellis

“Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.” Desiderius Erasmus

“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.” Desiderius Erasmus

“In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” Desiderius Erasmus

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.” Desiderius Erasmus

“Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.” Desiderius Erasmus

“No one respects a talent that is concealed.” Desiderius Erasmus

“Prevention is better than cure.” Desiderius Erasmus

“He who allows oppression shares the crime.” Desiderius Erasmus

“To know nothing is the happiest life.” Desiderius Erasmus

“A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.” Desiderius Erasmus

“Concealed talent brings no reputation.” Desiderius Erasmus

“By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.” Desiderius Erasmus

“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.” Desiderius Erasmus

“The desire to write grows with writing.” Desiderius Erasmus

“If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.” Desiderius Erasmus

“Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.” Desiderius Erasmus

“Your library is your paradise.” Desiderius Erasmus