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Psychology Quotes
"Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it."
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"It comes over me that I had then a strange alter ego deep down somewhere inside me, as the full-blown flower is in the small tight bud, and I just took the course, I just transferred him to the climate, that blighted him once and for ever."
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"The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself."
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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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"Our monsters walk the dark pathways of secret motives..."
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"An obstinate man does not hold opinions but they hold him."
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"Tony knows the names of trees and birds. As we walk around, he points them out to me. I try to record them in my mind, but the information never holds. What matters to me is the emotional meaning of the objects."
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"Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense."
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"People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable."
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"The box had done what Sweet Home had not, what working like an ass and living like a dog had not: drove him crazy so he would not lose his mind."
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"It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it."
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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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"Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable."
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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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"It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly."
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"Innocence is a kind of insanity."
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"The feeling of being both trapped and free at the same time is the most mind twisting feeling of all."
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"Hate destroys EVERYTHING except itself. Everything. Including you."
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"Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions sown are directly valid for all mankind."
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"He seemed to be staring at the chain hanging from the ceiling fan. Seconds later, he confirmed this by reaching out and tugging the chain. Light clicked on.He tugged the chain again.Light went off.Oh for gods' sake, he had a mean case of ADD sometimes. "Apollo," I snapped."
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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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"Hurts not transformed are transferred. Let your hurts bring on healing."
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"Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination."
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"It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none."
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"Sometimes my age is inappropriate for my behavior."
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"Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness."
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"I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer."
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"No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself."
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"My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I'm mad at myself."
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"Our minds are so cluttered with endless to-do lists that there's no room for us to experience the joy in being alive today."
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"Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary."
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"In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different."
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"It may be the character of his mind, to be always in singular need of occupation. That may be, in part, natural to it; in part, the result of affliction. The less it was occupied with healthy things, the more it would be in danger of turning in the unhealthy direction. He may have observed himself, and made the discovery."
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"I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can't even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk."
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"For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire."
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"Something is wrong with me, it's something about me. it has to be me because all those people cannot have changed."
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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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"The sentences still form in my mind, and thoughts still do their little show-off dance, but I know my thought patterns so well now that they don't bother me anymore. My thoughts have become like old neighbors, kind of bothersome but ultimately rather endearing - Mr. and Mrs. Yakkity-Yak and their three dumb children, Blah, Blah and Blah. But they don't agitate my home. There's room for all of us in this neighborhood."
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"Situations spin out of control because care was not taken to carefully manage reality through desires."
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"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have the man looked honest enough."
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"Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose."
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"Mad people are very emotionally orientated! They have complex feelings, they're easily upset, but are also easy to please! Most mad people have lonely lives, as nobody understands them. So they become "Lost Souls." They dream a lot. Go within their minds to search - some will turn strange, become dangerous. So a madman is created! His world becomes a mission."
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"Whether a thought is spoken or not, it is a real thing and has powers of reality."
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"For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity."
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"We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others."
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"I do not expect old heads on young shoulders."
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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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"Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it might go on."
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"There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words."
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"I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth."
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