59 Quotes by Karen Horney

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.

Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who is ... unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.