Vittorino Andreoli Quotes
born 1940 Italy
q:it:Vittorino Andreoli (1940) is an Italian psychiatrist and author.
- Italy
- Non-fiction authors
- Psychiatrists
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Fear is a defense mechanism that allows us to be aware of danger and therefore to take action to avoid its consequences.
The priest seems to me to be the most appropriate person to talk about death: he knows that it is not a subject for despair.
Isn't choice already an expression of freedom, even if only a basic one?
I deeply believe that priests are figures of great importance for non-believers.
I don't know if the present time has brought us great benefits, but it has certainly invented a lot of fears.
The memory of images is stored within us, and it is to this that we attach our feelings.
The old priest now knows that man errs, and that this often produces only temporary effects, so that what ultimately makes complete sense is precisely prayer.
The most beautiful dimension is that of the priest who has nothing, but who is an integral part of an active and attentive community, within a flock that loves him.
Marriage is the greatest of human frailties, capable of producing good and incapable of avoiding evil.
Love has nothing free about it, because fear does not allow this utopia to be exercised.
The presence of the divine in the world should serve to calm the visceral pride and sense of human omnipotence that exalt power and domination.
Fragility remakes man, while power destroys him, reducing him to fragments that turn to dust.
The old man lives on the dead and awaits death.
Beliefs in heaven, populated by the living, express well the denial of death and the desire to remain.
Jealousy is the fear of being alone, now that the perfect formula for wholeness has been found, which means completion, security.
An adult man cannot be reduced to an active and productive man.
Repetition has always been the source of certainty.
If your neighbor is antisocial and does not like your noise, he turns on his own and cancels yours.
The perception of the end is within each of us, it is a stigma of the species, a mark of its transience.
Sometimes you lose because you didn't choose the right field of trial.