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Quotes by Psychologist
"Man can attempt to become one with the world by submission to a person, to a group, to an institution, to God. In this way, he transcends the separateness of his individual existence by becoming part of somebody or something bigger than himself, and experiences his identity in connection with the power to which he has submitted."
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"If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others."
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"Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it."
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"Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity."
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"There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community."
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"And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture."
39
"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."
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"As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity."
39
"Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition."
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"I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need."
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"Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas."
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"Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit."
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"If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me."
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"I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person."
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"God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection."
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"Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes."
Will,
38
"Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family."
38
"Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher."
38
"Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed."
38
"Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
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"There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can."
38
"At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia."
38
"Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together."
38
"In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations."
38
"I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall."
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"Everybody needs one essential friend."
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"The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure."
38
"If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death."
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"Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner."
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"Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever."
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"Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?"
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"Walt Disney was my great hero."
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"A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know."
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"I want people to feel safe around me. Calm and at peace and I want to make people feel accepted. I want to express confidence on my own path, and spread confidence to other people on theirs."
38
"The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness."
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"Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena."
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"Sweet girl, maybe close the world off and look at him for an houror two.This is your fairy. It ain't perfect and it ain't honey sweet with roses on the bed.It's real and raw and ugly at times. But this is your love. Don't throw it away searching for someone else's love. Don't be greedy. Instead, shelter it. Protect it. Capture every second of easy, pull through every storm of hardship. And when you can, look at him, lying next to you, trusting you not to harm him. Trusting you not to go. Be someone's someone for someone.Be that someone for him."
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"It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion."
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"Once you have a child, you change so much along the way, you don't even recognize yourself by the time they're ready to move out!"
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"Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious."
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"Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge."
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"I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies."
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"There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself."
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"Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs."
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"Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved."
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"Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you."
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"To be quite accurate, human nature is simply what it is; it has its dark and its light sides. The sum of all colours is grey - light on a dark background or dark on light."
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"We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher."
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