Albert Ellis Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• When I started to get disillusioned with psychoanalysis I reread philosophy and was reminded of the constructivist notion that Epictetus had proposed 2,000 years ago: "People are disturbed not by events that happen to them, but by their view of them." I could see how that applied to many of my clients.

  Albert Ellis

  Philosophy, Years, Views

• As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

  Albert Ellis

  War, Hate, Philosophy

• As a matter of fact, as a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

  Albert Ellis

  Hate, Philosophy, War

  "The Prince of Reason". Interview with Robert Epstein, www.psychologytoday.com. June 9, 2016.

• My rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) was one of the very few therapies that was originated partly or largely because I wanted to be brief and efficient. And therefore right from the start I was active and directive. I tried to show people some central masturbatory core to their philosophy and to get them to work at changing it cognitively, emotionally and behaviorally.

  Albert Ellis

  Philosophy, People, Behavior

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