David H. Levy citations

“When a psychoanalyst takes on the role of a blank screen, all he really learns is how the patient responds to people who try to act like they’re a blank screen.”

“There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.”

“Winning isn’t as fun as losing is miserable.”

“There are two types of people in this world — those who think that there are two types of people in this world, and those who don’t.”

“Don’t worry, there will always be something to worry about.”

“Intuition is usually the first word, and is sometimes the last word, but should never be the only word.”

“When it’s bad, I get depressed; when it’s good, I get nervous.”

“Insight is the booby prize of life.”

“Things could always be worse. In fact, the overwhelming odds are that they will be.”

“All’s well that changes least.”

“I used to fear that taking medication would change my personality; now I fear that it won’t.”

“Facts are like kryptonite to teenagers.”

“Nowadays, the absence of catastrophic news is great news.”

“Social psychology is the scientific study of the obvious, which invariably leads to conflicting results.”

“The human capacity for denial and rationalization is always shocking, but never surprising.”

“I would do anything to keep indulging…including quitting indulging.”

“To be neurotic is to spend one’s life perpetually replacing one worry with the next.”

“Emotion trumps logic.”