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Psychology Quotes
"To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation."
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"Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."
12
"He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore."
9
"The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture."
8
"She sat in a secluded room, she was mad, but she could not accept it; so she was neither sane nor insane. She could not be either until she knew herself, so in limbo she must die. She kept stuffing toilet roll into her mouth. They found her choked to death!"
7
"Some people feed your ego, but starve your soul."
5
"The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience."
5
"To be filled with fear is to open to the wrong way."
5
"Where there is anger there is always pain underneath."
4
"Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie."
4
"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."
4
"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."
4
"There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography."
3
"There are different categories of madmen, and different types of asylums! I know absolutely nothing about the asylums that house the madman who thinks he is a space man. Would you believe that 90% of madmen are treated in outside clinics?"
3
"Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were."
3
"On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question."
3
"I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely."
3
"People don't believe what you tell them.They rarely believe what you show them.They often believe what their friends tell them.They always believe what they tell themselves."
3
"I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists."
2
"The greatest enemy to fear is truth."
2
"The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis."
2
"I do not expect old heads on young shoulders."
2
"You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can't erase the history that produced them."
2
"The more you learn the biology behind your every action, emotion and behavior, the better you become at accepting others the way they are."
2
"At best, people are open to scrutinizing themselves and considering their blind spots; at worst, they become defensive and angry."
2
"My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right."
2
"Get out of your own way... What we call 'lack of willpower' is actually just losing an argument with an outdated version of yourself."
2
"Over-analysis is a dream killer. Sometimes you can drown yourself in your own thoughts."
2
"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."
2
"The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you'."
2
"I think most readers would say the same. Most would choose Midori. And the protagonist, of course, chooses her in the end. But some part of him is always in the other world and he cannot abandon it. It's a part of him, an essential part. All human beings have a sickness in their minds. That space is a part of them."
2
"You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun."
2
"People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt... They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear."
2
"It is easier to be a mere performer and not to make serious decisions, to live with an assistance of someone else's mind and obey someone else's command when you are a person of victim mentality."
2
"Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings."
2
"I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all."
2
"The longer you blame the mirror, the longer you throw away the power to change what it is reflecting."
2
"I would say about 80 to 90 percent of people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunction and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will know this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy."
2
"While it is easy to get caught up in the beliefs and attitudes of others, it is easier still to make one's self a victim of circumstance. Victims of circumstance believe they have no power over their lives, since they are merely the play-things of fate. Since they believe this, it is therefore so."
2
"Hungry people are always thinking about food, poor people are always thinking about wealth. Obsessive thinking can kill your dreams!"
2
"Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them."
2
"The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to-instead of them-change reality."
1
"No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person."
1
"If evil lingers around you, it will rub off on you, it will cause stress, anxiety and a lot of mental anguish! 'Eyes' - you can see evil in the eye of the beholder! Body! Talk! Stance! Walk! Posture! Evil oozes out!"
1
"We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are-to most people-not important at all."
1
"Stubbornness is a weapon.People tend to draw it out when a sensitive part of their identity is threatened-be it dignity, honor, pride, desires, etc. If loaded with righteous resolve, stubbornness can assist in overcoming obstacles and achieving great feats; however, more often than not it is loaded with anger, used as a means of destruction for both the possessor and those whom he turns his weapon upon. It is best utilized by wise individuals who are able to dispassionately perceive if their stubbornness will accomplish good, or if it should be put away and replaced by a humble substitute to spare the lives of everyone affected."
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"But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel."
1
"The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW."
1
"A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping."
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