Nathaniel Branden Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.”

“When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.”

“The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.”

“I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.”

“To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.”

“If we are happy within ourselves, we don't accept or demand that our partner should fulfill every need. We need to be comfortable with our own company.”

“Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.”

“Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.”