“I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.”

— Ray Bradbury

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist." by Ray Bradbury?

Ray Bradbury photo

Ray Bradbury401

American writer 1920–2012

Related quotes

“He didn't believe in psychiatrists, he said. But actually he did believe in them, so much that he was afraid of them.”

John Steinbeck book The Wayward Bus

Source: The Wayward Bus (1947), Ch. 13. "He" is Elliot Pritchard.

“I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

“What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.”

Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist

“I'm crazy enough to believe that the happiest man on earth is the man with the fewest needs.”

Henry Miller book The Colossus of Maroussi

Source: The Colossus of Maroussi (1941) Part 2, p. 133

“I think that Hitler was abnormal in his sexual needs. That is, he needed too little from the opposite sex. He considered women as objects of beauty, and he often talked with affection about his own mother. I obtained the impression that he disliked his father, because he never mentioned him. But it is a bad thing if a man has too little Eros in him. It makes him insensitive, and probably leads to cruelty. Freud, Sigmund Freud, the last of the great German psychiatrists, who died in England, pointed out the relationship between frustrated love and cruelty. I believe it is what you psychiatrists term sadism. I'm convinced that a man who does not need the love of a woman, and thinks he can forgo it, or who does forgo it, can turn to cruelty and sadism as a substitute.”

Hans Frank (1900–1946) German war criminal

To Leon Goldensohn, July 20, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004

“If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.”

Timothy Leary (1920–1996) American psychologist

“People are more inclined to believe in bad intentions than in good ones.”

Giovanni Boccaccio book The Decameron

La gente è più acconcia a credere il male che il bene.
Third Day, Sixth Story
The Decameron (c. 1350)

“I believe the love of flowers to be as inherent in the disposition as any other inclination.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)

“I'm not even sure we really had that much need for God as much as we did seem to have a need to believe in Him.”

Joseph Heller book God Knows

God Knows (1984)

Related topics