Clinical Psychologist Dr.Ellen Kenner |
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"When a man declares: `Who am I to know?' he is declaring: `Who am I to live?" AYN RAND |
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Quotes Mentioned Throughout DrKenner.com |
| "Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to enjoy. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy - a joy without penalty or guilt... Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values, and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions... there are no victims and no conflicts of interest among rational men, men who do not desire the unearned..." AYN RAND happiness |
| "Here comes the orator! with his flood of words, and his drop of reason." BENJAMIN FRANKLIN radio |
| "Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason." MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN parenting1&2 |
| "...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, ...pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality." AYN RAND about drk |
| "Love,friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another..." AYN RAND romance |
| "We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it." THOMAS JEFFERSON misc |
| "There is no happiness where there is no wisdom." SOPHOCLES ask drk, sample topics, sample answer |
| "In popular usage, the term `career' is applied only to the more ambitious types of work; but, in fact, it applies to all work: it denotes a man's attitude toward his work....It is not the degree of a man's ability that is ethically relevant in this issue, but the full, purposeful use of his ability." AYN RAND career |
| "No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks." MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN therapy |
| "...certain unalienable rights: that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness..." THOMAS JEFFERSON publications,articles |
| "The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live." AYN RAND virtue and happiness, article gratitude, |
"Reason in man is rather like God in the world." |
| "Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control." MARCUS AURELIUS books |
| "Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to laugh at the good, is a hideous vice. Too often, humor is used as the camouflage of moral cowardice." AYN RAND humor |
| "It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason..." MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN emotions |
| "Reason is immortal, all else mortal" PYTHAGORAS seminars |
| "...knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset." THUCYDIDES comments |
| "Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims." AYN RAND newsletter, article boosters, article responsibility |
| "Man is a reasoning animal." SENECA audio recordings, article adhd, |
| "With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost." WM. LLOYD GARRISON pay by check, article open mind |
| "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?" THOMAS JEFFERSON pay by card, article abortion, |
| "He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions." THOMAS JEFFERSON how2choose, article same |
| "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." THOMAS JEFFERSON show topics, download |
| "Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long." SENECA compare |
| "Reason never has failed men. Only force and oppression have made the wrecks in the world." WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE photos quotes |
| "What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when he was three? The proper question is: what does he say and do now?" LEONARD PEIKOFF quiz, single |
| "To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable." EPICTETUS why this name, article changing, |
| "...Attila and the Witch Doctor form an alliance and divide their respective domains. Attila rules the realm of men's physical existence—the Witch Doctor rules the realm of men's consciousness. Attila herds men into armies—the Witch Doctor sets the armies' goals. Attila conquers empires—the Witch Doctor writes their laws. Attila loots and plunders—the Witch Doctor exhorts the victims to surpass their selfish concern with material property. Attila slaughters—the Witch Doctor proclaims to the survivors that scourges are a retribution for their sins. Attila rules by means of fear, by keeping men under a constant threat of destruction—the Witch Doctor rules by means of guilt, by keeping men convinced of their innate depravity, impotence and insignificance. Attila turns men's life on earth into a living hell—the Witch Doctor tells them that it could not be otherwise." AYN RAND terrorism |
| "The necessary consequence of a man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. All the reasons which make the initiation of physical force an evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative." AYN RAND self defense |
| "Melt their weapons, melt their hearts, melt their anger with love." Shirly MacLaine, outlining her antiterrorism policy on her Web site From Perspectives, Newsweek October 8, 2001 toleration |
| "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty not safety." BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (Historical Review of Pennsylvania 1759) terror quotes, article procrastination, |
| "When a man declares: `Who am I to know?' he is declaring: `Who am I to live?' " AYN RAND quotes, exit , article sarcasm, |
| " (Boxing) brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness." MIKE TYSON from USA Today, 10/20/00 money1 |
| "It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money..." AYN RAND money2 |
| "(A rational man) needs a moment, an hour or some period of time in which he can experience the sense of his completed task, the sense of living in a universe where his values have been successfully achieved, It is like a moment of rest, a moment to gain fuel to move farther, Art gives him that fuel; the pleasure of contemplating the objectified reality of one's own sense of life is the pleasure of feeling what it would be like to live in one's ideal world."AYN RAND art |
| ``If a man insists always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it." HERODOTUS hobbies |
| "Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage." Benjamin Franklin divorce |
| "Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself." AYN RAND sex1, sex2 |
| "Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves." ARISTOTLE friendship |
"Do not mistake bribe-taking for corruption." "I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things." |
| "There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in robbery. The evil of a robber does not lie in the fact that he pursues his own interests, but in what he regards as to his own interest; not in the fact that he pursues his values, but in what he chose to value; not in the fact that he wants to live, but in the fact that he wants to live on a subhuman level..."AYN RAND selfishness |
| "Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind." AYN RAND self-esteem, cant force a mind 1&2 |
| "Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has..." LUTHER obstacles |
| "If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence." ARISTOTLE duty |
| "Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it." AYN RAND psychics |
| "A good mind possesses a kingdom." SENECA emotions2 |
| "No man can claim virtue in that he is merely generous with another's wealth." Dale Graessle ? Gratitude |
"You don't need to take drugs to hallucinate; improper language can fill your world with phantoms and spooks of many kinds." Robert A. Wilson thinikingskills |
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| Dealing With Terrorism | |
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Sometimes the way we cope with terrorism in our own minds and the way we deal with it socially have the opposite effect we intend |
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| (Under Construction) Happiness requires that you choose only rational values to seek out and work to obtain | (Under Construction) Happiness requires that you are satisfied that your mind deals with people and events in a rational manner | |
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| Emotions and logic are allies in your search for happiness | How humor can help or hurt your chances for happiness | |
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