Ernest Jones famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
-- Ernest Jones

#Dark #Men #Enemy
The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.
-- Ernest Jones

#Men #Society #Outrun
Dividing the swing into its parts is like dissecting a cat. You'll have blood and guts and bones all over the place. But you won't have a cat.
-- Ernest Jones

#Cat #Golf #Swings
His mother's favorite, he possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to do so, though for long the direction this would take remained uncertain.
-- Ernest Jones

#Mother #Ambition #Self Confidence
[Censors are] people with secret attractions to various temptations... They are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart they fear their own weaknesses.
-- Ernest Jones

#Fear #Heart #People
...whatever other qualities Jews may posses, likable or the reverse, no one who knows them well can deny that they are personally interesting. By that I mean, specially alive, alert, quick at comprehending people or events and at making pungent or witty comments on them... One might at times find the rather hothouse family atmosphere, with it intensities and frictions, somewhat trying, but one could be sure of never being bored.
-- Ernest Jones

#Witty #Mean #People
I wish to emphasize that there are no secrets to golf.
-- Ernest Jones

#Golf #Secret #Wish
[Freud's] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact... When he got hold of a simple but significant fact he would feel, and know, that it was an example of something general or universal, and the idea of collecting statistics on the matter was quite alien to him.
-- Ernest Jones

#Science #Simple #Ideas

Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.
George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.
As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.
The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

Ernest Jones famous quotes

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