19th-century Psychiatrist Quotes

Carl Jung

Karl Jaspers

Alfred Adler

Emil Kraepelin

Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Ernst Kretschmer

Adolf Meyer (psychiatrist)

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.

Richard von Krafft-Ebing

On earth there are assuredly other things great besides man, though none greater; and in man there are other things great besides mind, though none greater.

There is a growing tendency amongst the laity to tread not only the broad highways of science, but to explore its more fascinating by-paths.

I wonder how soon we shall be far enough along to have the physician ask: How much and what, if anything, is structural? how much Functional, somatic or metabolic? How much constitutional, psychogenic and social?

Adolf Meyer (psychiatrist)

If you want fame and fortune, invent a pill.

James Crichton-Browne

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

The psychopaths are always around. In calm times we study them, but in times of upheaval, they rule over us.

Ernst Kretschmer

The mental vigor of most men is usually maintained at a certain height for the longest time in the forenoon. The evidences of fatigue come on later at this time of day than in the evening, when the store of force in our brain has been already considerably drawn upon by the whole day's work.

Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaking, is a purely creative being and whose personality has been as mysterious and unfathomable to the man as the artist has been to the average person.

Beatrice M. Hinkle

Everything you do consciously is preserved for you: everything you do mechanically, since you did not do it, is lost.

Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.

The mathematician learns early to accept no fact, to believe no statement, however apparently reasonable or obvious or trivial, until it has been proved, rigorously and totally by a series of steps proceeding from universally accepted first principles.

Psychiatric services — that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living — are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

It has been well remarked of the poems of Hafiz, that their refreshing influence does not depend so much on the sense of the words as on the tone of mind produced in the reader.

Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben

He screamed out, 'Take the soup away!
O take the nasty soup away!
I won't have any soup today.'

Heinrich Hoffmann

When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and overwhelming events; when we contemplate a history that seems to be at an end, leaving only chaos behind it, then we are impelled to raise ourselves above history.

Man reacts upon and toward the external universe in three ways, namely, by his active nature ; by his intellectual nature ; by his moral nature — that is, he acts upon it, thinks about it, and feels toward it.

Richard Maurice Bucke