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Quotes by Psychologist
"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water."
71
"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves."
67
"What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree."
65
"The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again."
64
"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
64
"Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice."
63
"For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment."
60
"I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it."
55
"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."
53
"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."
52
"Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions."
52
"Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another."
51
"It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins."
51
"If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia."
51
"If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does."
51
"Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity."
51
"Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."
49
"In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival."
48
"Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it."
47
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."
46
"And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness."
46
"It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning."
46
"Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?"
45
"It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence."
43
"Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals."
43
"Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity."
42
"There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment."
41
"It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person."
41
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
40
"It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth."
39
"I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast."
39
"In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth."
39
"It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct."
38
"Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk."
38
"Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying."
37
"The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary."
37
"The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death."
37
"A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success."
37
"Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe."
36
"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."
36
"Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem."
36
"The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people."
35
"Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution."
35
"In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning."
35
"So much is asked of parents, and so little is given."
35
"The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?"
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