Author Profile
Karl A. Menninger
1893 – 1990 • American • Psychologist
11
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 11 quotesIs it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.— Karl A. Menninger
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.— Karl A. Menninger
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.— Karl A. Menninger