Quotes from Otto Rank

Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.

Art is life's dream interpretation.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.

There is already too much truth in the world - an overproduction which apparently cannot be consumed!

The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?

Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by one's fellowmen.

The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

In the psychical sphere there are no facts, but only interpretations of them.

Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.

It seems that life, in order to maintain itself, must revolt every so often against man's ceaseless attempts to master its irrational forces with his mind.

Neurosis is the result of willing the spontaneous.

for the time being I gave up writing-there is already too much truth in the world-an overproduction which apparently cannot be consumed!

his fate stirs us only because it might have been our own fate ; because the oracle has cursed us prior to our birth, as it did him, [...] our dreams convince us of this truth. (Dream Interpretation: Edipus, by. Freud)

Already several prophecies of ours have applied to insignificant trifles, and what rests upon dreams is apt to be vain. (The Circle of Myths: Cyrus)