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Milton Sapirstein Quotes

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

Milton Sapirstein
Home, Parenting, Inspire
Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

Milton Sapirstein
Assumption, Impulse, Persons
Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”

Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.

Milton Sapirstein
Beauty, Emotional, Development
Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”

It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.

Milton Sapirstein
Children, Twenties, Four
Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

Milton Sapirstein
Marriage, Mother, Fiction
Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”

Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.

Milton Sapirstein
Parent, Society, Kind
Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”

Our unconscious is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.

Milton Sapirstein
Night, Goes On, Moments
Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”

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