Whatever May Be, I Am Still Largely

When I Was 16 I Started Keeping A Diary In Which I Recorded My Disagreements With The Famous Philosophers. I Didn't Insist That They Were Wrong, That I Was Right And I Had To Prevail. I Just Agreed And Disagreed With Them. I Thought There Was A High Degree Of Probability That I Was Right And Some Other Thinkers Were Wrong. But I Wasn't Positive About It.

Strong Feelings Are Fine; It's The Overreactions That Mess Us Up.

I Regret That I've Been So Busy With Clinical Work That I Haven't Been Able To Spend Much Time On Experiments And Outcome Studies.

We Teach People That They Upset Themselves. We Can't Change The Past, So We Change How People Are Thinking, Feeling And Behaving Today.

People Don't Just Get Upset. They Contribute To Their Upsetness. They Always Have The Power To Think, And To Think About Their Thinking, And To Think About Thinking About Their Thinking, Which The Goddamn Dolphin, As Far As We Know, Can't Do. Therefore They Have Much Greater Ability To Change Themselves Than Any Other Animal Has, And I Hope That Rebt Teaches Them How To Do It.