“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.” MenMeanChildrenDoeAchieveMaterialsCapableCommitmentFruitEmptinessRaising ChildrenHollownessIncompleteness 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.” IfsMenEvilDifferencesMoralGoodnessIntentionHistorianSparesArrangementsSensitivityVulgarGood IntentionsTediousExposingPsychoBad ManEgalitarianism 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.” MenMaySignificant 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.” MenTermGreaterBehaviorUnconsciousDistortion Author:Willard Gaylin
“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.” MenStatesBornAnimalPeriodsComplicatedHelplessMammalsGestationGestation Period Author:Willard Gaylin
