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Quotes by Psychologist
"You can start anew at any given moment. Life is just the passage of time and it's up to you to pass it as you please."
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"It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people."
41
"Sensation tell us a thing is.Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.Feeling tells us what this thing is to us."
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"I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which is its ideational content sounds very like a first attempt at the consolations of religion, like another way taken by the ego of denying the dangers it sees threatening it in the external world."
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"It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being."
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"I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992."
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"It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it."
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"The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs."
41
"No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?"
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"My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could."
41
"The polarity between the male and female principles exists also within each man and each woman. Just as physiologically man and woman each have hormones of the opposite sex, they are bisexual also in the psychological sense. They carry in themselves the principle of receiving and of penetrating, of matter and of spirit. Man-and woman-finds union within himself only in the union of his female and his male polarity. This polarity is the basis for all creativity."
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"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."
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"The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual."
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"In each of us there is another whom we do not know.Carl Jungfound in David Eagleman's book: Incognito."
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"It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end."
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"As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families."
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"I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do."
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"The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds."
Will,
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"We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens."
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"It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful."
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"Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional."
41
"Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless."
41
"Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor."
41
"I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it."
41
"We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office."
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"Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited."
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"In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore."
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"We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love."
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"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality."
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"The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand, and it is fine," is the greatest understanding you could exhibit."
40
"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it."
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"The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness."
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"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
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"Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives."
40
"A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?"
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"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
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"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."
Man,
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"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."
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"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing."
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"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
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"You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it."
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"Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop."
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"Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society."
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"Inspiration is God making contact with itself."
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"I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea."
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"Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference."
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