Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Allen Wheelis

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis.
Last updated on December 6, 2024.
Allen Wheelis

Allen Wheelis was a psychoanalyst and writer who lived in San Francisco, CA. He achieved renown and success with his psychoanalytic practice, which spanned five decades despite the fact that he expressed ambivalence and doubt about the field and his own work in it. Wheelis died on June 14, 2007, at the age of 91 in a San Francisco hospital after receiving back surgery.

Psychoanalyst | 1915 - June 14, 2007
So briefly do we raise our heads, so quick sink back. For a moment we are lifted by a wave of time, are tossed up into the sunlight of consciousness We cannot see so far as where this wave began, but maybe we have waited some thousand years for it to come, and now it is on us. This is our moment, the wave is breaking. The crest which passes through us now in tumult was shaped by the past, and we in this moment are able to shape the crest which is to come.
The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.
One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles. — © Allen Wheelis
One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.
Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished.
Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.
Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach an absolute, to find the course of human events to a final end. It is not reason that has promised to eliminate risk in human undertakings; it is the emotional needs of men.
The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.
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