Morton Irving Seiden famous quotes

It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything.
-- Morton Irving Seiden

#Guilt #Sensitive #Easy

Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.
-- Morton Irving Seiden

#Matter #Behavior #Ends

In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals.
-- Morton Irving Seiden

#Reason #Should #Anxious

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.
-- Morton Irving Seiden

#Doe #Human Nature #Behave

It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.

If you feel guilty about not "playing nice," then you could easily alleviate your guilt by playing nice.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

Be hard on yourself, easy on others.