Projection Quotes

“A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".”

“What is it that you love in others?--My hopes.”

“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”

“The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself.”

“What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.”

“Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.”

“He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.”

“A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.”

“Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.”

“We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.”

“It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else. Nothing has a more diverse and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections.”