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Albert Ellis
September 27, 1913 - June 24, 2007
Nationality: American
Category: Psychologist
Subcategory: American Psychologist

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.

   

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.

   

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

   

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

   

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.

   

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

   

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

   

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

   

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.

   

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

   

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.

   

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

   

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

   

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

   

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.

   

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

   

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.

   

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