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Willard Gaylin is an American author known for his psychological thrillers. His works delve into the dark side of human nature, particularly focusing on psychiatrists and criminal psychology.

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Humans Emotion Quality Development Essentials Shame Guilt Noble Civilized Melancholy Elegant Refined Maintenance Human Potential Civilized Society Shame And Guilt

Author:Willard Gaylin

“When men achieve the fruits of their material success, they often become aware of an emptiness--an incompleteness--in their lives;the hollowness of having, but not raising, children, of not making true commitments to them. Which, sadly, does not mean that they weren't capable of it.”

Men Mean Children Doe Achieve Materials Capable Commitment Fruit Emptiness Raising Children Hollowness Incompleteness

Author:Willard Gaylin

“Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which, by exposing the goodness inside the bad man, and the evil in the good-invariably establish a vulgar and perverse egalitarianism, as if the arrangement of what is outside and what inside makes no moral difference.”

Ifs Men Evil Differences Moral Goodness Intention Historian Spares Arrangements Sensitivity Vulgar Good Intentions Tedious Exposing Psycho Bad Man Egalitarianism

Author:Willard Gaylin

“We are what we seem to be.”

Character Seems Human Nature

Author:Willard Gaylin

“All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relative independence along the way, it is a transient and passing glory.”

Ifs Way Enough Our Lives Achieve Stage Glory Independence Finals Libertarian Passing Passings Evolve Fortunate Relative Dependence Initials Transient

Author:Willard Gaylin

“I not only think that we will tamper with Mother Nature, I think Mother wants us to.”

Thinking Want Mother Thrive Want U Mother Nature

Author:Willard Gaylin

“A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.”

Men May Significant

Book:In the service of their country: war resisters in prison

Source: In the service of their country: war resisters in prison

“To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.”

Men Term Greater Behavior Unconscious Distortion

Author:Willard Gaylin

“A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.”

Ifs Way Humans Humanity Human Beings Streets Paid Beast Killers Prey Fisherman Thug Trout

Book:The Killing of Bonnie Garland: A Question of Justice

Source: The Killing of Bonnie Garland: A Question of Justice

“Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.”

Life Is Joy Pleasure Support Goodness Survival Pursuit Enjoyed

Author:Willard Gaylin

“We occupy a space of our own creation-a collage compounded by bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal perceptions, our hopes, our fears, our memories, and our anticipations.”

Bits Memories Space Pieces Design Creation Perception Determined Internals Anticipation Our Memories Actuality Bits And Pieces Collages

Author:Willard Gaylin

“The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life”

Inspiration Space Bears Office Adults Window Corners Extras Teddy Teddy Bear Tricycles

Book:The Rage Within: Anger in Modern Life

Source: The Rage Within: Anger in Modern Life

“Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations.”

Feelings Imagination Worry Speech Anxiety Absolutes Threat Reasoning Unconscious Anxious Representation Examination Symbolic Facilitate

Author:Willard Gaylin

“Because we are intelligent creatures-meaning that we are freed from instinctive and patterned behavior to a degree unparalleled in the animal kingdom-we are capable of, and dependent on, using rational choice to decide our futures.”

Choices Animal Creatures Degrees Behavior Capable Intelligent Kingdoms Rational Dependent Our Future Animal Kingdom

Author:Willard Gaylin

“Feeling good and feeling bad are not necessarily opposites. Both at least involve feelings. Any feeling is a reminder of life. The worst 'feeling' evidently is non-feeling.”

Feelings Emotion Worst Opposites Feel Good Reminders Feeling Bad

Author:Willard Gaylin

“Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corollary. They are signals directing us toward goodness, safety, pleasure, and group survival.”

Feelings Decision Pleasure Animal Groups Fine Shapes Goodness Survival Safety Blessed Instruments Decision Making Signals Cursed

Book:The male ego

Source: The male ego

“Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a ridiculously helpless state.”

Men States Born Animal Periods Complicated Helpless Mammals Gestation Gestation Period

Author:Willard Gaylin

“Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.”

Struggle Victory Survival Draws Defeat Envy Jealousy Struggle For Survival

Book:The male ego

Source: The male ego

“In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into question our confidence in our own coping ability, it will threaten our safety.”

Ifs World Ability Struggle Survival Safety Coping Pitfalls

Author:Willard Gaylin

“We must live in groups; other people are like nutrients for us, and are absolutely essential for our survival.”

People Groups Essentials Survival Nutrients

Author:Willard Gaylin

“English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.”

Giving Purpose Language Environment Intellectual Complexes Fuse New Words Undisciplined

Author:Willard Gaylin

About the Author

Born: 1925
Known for: Author
Quotes: 21

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