Complexes Quotes

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.

My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.

Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capitalize on that. And say, OK, well fine, you have a God complex, well this person has a Satan complex. And the doctor chooses to treat him scientifically.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.