Top 70 Sam Keen Quotes (2024 Update)
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Sam Keen Quote: “If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible.”

51. “If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible.”

Sam Keen Quote: “There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.”

52. “There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.”

Sam Keen Quote: “I think we’re inevitably going to be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention on something that doesn’t give us meaning, only material things.”

53. “I think we’re inevitably going to be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention on something that doesn’t give us meaning, only material things.”

Sam Keen Quote: “The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places.”

54. “The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places.”

Sam Keen Quote: “Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.”

55. “Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.”

Sam Keen Quote: “I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each day’s events. If only we knew how to listen, to read the signs.”

56. “I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each day’s events. If only we knew how to listen, to read the signs.”

Sam Keen Quote: “Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don’t mean anything.”

57. “Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don’t mean anything.”

Sam Keen Quote: “I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality.”

58. “I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality.”

Sam Keen Quote: “Being pretty successful, I can, of course, afford some luxuries. But I realize again and again how we have to disillusion ourselves of the idea that these things are going to give us real satisfaction.”

59. “Being pretty successful, I can, of course, afford some luxuries. But I realize again and again how we have to disillusion ourselves of the idea that these things are going to give us real satisfaction.”

Sam Keen Quote: “To really love a person completely is to come to a point where your stories are intertwined.”

60. “To really love a person completely is to come to a point where your stories are intertwined.”

Sam Keen Quote: “I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don’t know all that much.”

61. “I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don’t know all that much.”

Sam Keen Quote: “It’s perfectly possible to spend forty hours a week on a job that’s meaningless, as long as you know what your real vocation is and find some way to express it. Then you won’t confuse your job with the meaning of your life.”

62. “It’s perfectly possible to spend forty hours a week on a job that’s meaningless, as long as you know what your real vocation is and find some way to express it. Then you won’t confuse your job with the meaning of your life.”

Sam Keen Quote: “In problems of logic, contradictory statements cannot be true; in the psyche, only contradictions are true. Self-image and shadow are Siamese twins, and the psyche is equally formed by the conscious and unconscious. Whatever appears to be true on the surface is linked to an opposite truth beneath the surface. What you see is not what you get.”

63. “In problems of logic, contradictory statements cannot be true; in the psyche, only contradictions are true. Self-image and shadow are Siamese twins, and the psyche is equally formed by the conscious and unconscious. Whatever appears to be true on the surface is linked to an opposite truth beneath the surface. What you see is not what you get.”

Sam Keen Quote: “The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. – RALPH SOCKMAN.”

64. “The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. – RALPH SOCKMAN.”

Sam Keen Quote: “At thirty I lived in a world where death wasn’t immediately real; it was always something “out there.” My deeply held illusions of immortality – a product of my very conservative religious upbringing – were still pretty much intact.”

65. “At thirty I lived in a world where death wasn’t immediately real; it was always something “out there.” My deeply held illusions of immortality – a product of my very conservative religious upbringing – were still pretty much intact.”

Sam Keen Quote: “We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.”

66. “We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.”

Sam Keen Quote: “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was “thank you,” that would be sufficient. – MEISTER ECKHART.”

67. “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was “thank you,” that would be sufficient. – MEISTER ECKHART.”

Sam Keen Quote: “If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling conflict.”

68. “If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling conflict.”

Sam Keen Quote: “The more we chase away the false mysteries – those things we think we know about ourselves and others – the more mysterious our existence becomes.”

69. “The more we chase away the false mysteries – those things we think we know about ourselves and others – the more mysterious our existence becomes.”

Sam Keen Quote: “A man who does not know how to wage a just battle, first with himself and then with others, has no values worth defending, no ideals worth aspiring to, no awareness of the disease of which he might be healed. And no mensch worships the status quo.”

70. “A man who does not know how to wage a just battle, first with himself and then with others, has no values worth defending, no ideals worth aspiring to, no awareness of the disease of which he might be healed. And no mensch worships the status quo.”

Sam Keen Quote: “If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms of the culture’s values. We have to get beyond our cultural mythology to find out who we are.”

71. “If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms of the culture’s values. We have to get beyond our cultural mythology to find out who we are.”

Sam Keen Quote: “The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.”

72. “The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.”

Sam Keen Quote: “What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?”

73. “What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?”

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