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Sheldon B. Kopp Quotes

1929–1999 United States

Sheldon Bernard Kopp (March 29, 1929 – March 29, 1999) was an American psychotherapist and author.

United States
Psychologists

Also known as: Sheldon Kopp

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Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.

Even a stone can be a teacher (1985)

One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.

Even a stone can be a teacher (1985)

We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.

Even a stone can be a teacher (1985)

It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings.

Even a stone can be a teacher (1985)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sheldon B. Kopp (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.