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Psychology Quotes
"Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry."
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"Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts."
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"No two human beings are alike; it's a question of identity. And what is identity? The cognitive system arisin' from the aggregate memories of that individual's past experiences. The layman's word for this is the mind. Not two human beings have the same mind. At the same time, human beings have almost no grasp of their own cognitive systems. I don't, you don't, nobody does. All we know-or think we know-is but a fraction of the whole cake. A mere tip of the icing."
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"He just wanted to see what a girl who was crazy enough to kill herself looked like."
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"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused."
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"I remembered the old doctor, - "It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot." I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting."
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"Desperation brings out the darkness in everyone," the man said with a shrug."
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"Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers."
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"That's what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast."
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"The accumulation of beliefs, knowledge and experiences contribute to our level of success and progress in life, however they also introduce the reality that we are all prejudiced. If not well managed, our personal prejudices can become the mental prison we lock ourselves inside or we use to shut others out. You need to deal with this likely impediment to a success-driven lifestyle."
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"By assembling in our mind all the consequential facts we have lived through and by reviewing, appraising or sometimes idealizing the numerous key points of the past, authenticity may gradually mutate and actuality decay at last. At that point in time we are to experience a maimed factuality. ['Labyrinth of the mind']"
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"His [Morel's] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out."
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"Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?"
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"My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person."
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"The spirit of pessimism inside of her was purely organic."
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"Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane " not just insane but totally so " or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane."
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"Behaviours and habits are therefore the end result of the entire value chain and cannot be changed in a sustainable manner by scratching the surface - you have to dig deeper. This is why jail time, threats and sanctions without appropriate rehabilitation programs will not change a person unless they embark on a personal journey/program to initiate the process of change from the inner core " how the programs in their brain are wired to influence their beliefs."
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"People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life."
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"The doctors agreed: He was going crazy...they didn't think it had anything to do with the war. They were sure Billy was going to pieces because his father had thrown him into the deep end of the Y.M.C.A swimming pool when he was a little boy, and had then taken him to the rim of the Grand Canyon."
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"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."
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"Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain."
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"I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane."
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"You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself."
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"You lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you're living a different kind of life there. In a world that's inside you."
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"It's the hard things that break; soft things don't break. It was an epiphany I had today and I just wonder why it took me so very, very long to see it! You can waste so many years of your life trying to become something hard in order not to break; but it's the soft things that can't break! The hard things are the ones that shatter into a million pieces!"
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"Your beliefs frame your thoughts and actions. If you change your beliefs, you change your reality."
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"Whatever it was, she knew she would not be blamed for it, she was blameless. But what use had that been to her in the past, to be blameless? So at the same time she felt guilty, and as if she was about to be punished."
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"I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian."
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"Either the gates of hell had opened, or Tom had lost his mind; for there could be nothing like this entity outside the precincts of the damned, except in the fevered fantasies of a raving paranoid psychopath."
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"When people's parallel truth collides with their real truth, they may have a hard time in subduing all the fanciful items and characters of their invented world. ['The day the mirror was talking back']"
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"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have the man looked honest enough."
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"All human behavior, all human motivations, all man's hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind's tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction."
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"The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable."
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"Your thought is so important because it has the ability to make or mar you. Your thought will either move you forward or set you backwards."
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"He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durham didn't dislike him, he was sure. That was all he wanted. One thing at a time. He didn't so much as have hopes, for hope distracts, and he had a great deal to see to."
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"I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you."
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"The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves."
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"I do not expect old heads on young shoulders."
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"Get out of your own way... What we call 'lack of willpower' is actually just losing an argument with an outdated version of yourself."
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"We came in today with a chip on our shoulder to prove who we are."
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"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?"
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"Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine."
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"I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication."
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"Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it might go on."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy."
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"Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment."
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"I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign."
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"She asked him, to name the monster that he is most afraid of always and looked into his eyes in silence. 'I see him every time whenever I stare into your eyes.' he replied."
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