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Quotes by Psychologist
"The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience of oneness.Thus paradoxical logic leads to the conclusion that the love of God is neither the knowledge of God in thought, nor the thought of one's love of God, but the act of experiencing the oneness with God."
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"A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes."
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"For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death."
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"I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture."
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"The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world."
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"What holds true for the individual holds true for a society. It is never static; if it does not grow, it decays; if it does not transcend the status quo for the better, it changes for the worse. Often we, the individual or the people who make up a society, have the illusion we could stand still and not alter the given situation in the one or the other direction. This is one of the most dangerous illusions. The moment we stand still, we begin to decay."
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"One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed."
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"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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"Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology."
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"What the psychological analysis of doctrines can show is the subjective motivations which make a person aware of certain problems and make him seek answers in certain directions. Any kind of though, true or false, is motivated by the subjective needs and interests of the person who is thinking. It happens that some interests are furthered by finding the truth, others by destroying it."
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"I feel a new era coming in, standing on the shore, waiting for it to slowly greet me."
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"You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day."
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"We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death."
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"Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world."
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"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."
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"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror."
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"In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally, affected the normal work of the stomach."
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"Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul."
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"Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self."
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"If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated."
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"Most of us hoped to be able to trust. When we were little we did not yet know the human invention of the lie - not only that of lying with words but that of lying with one's voice, one's gesture, one's eyes, one's facial expression. How should the child be prepared for this specifically human ingenuity: the lie? Most of us are awakened, some more and some less brutally, to the fact that people often do not mean what they say or say the opposite of what they mean. And not only "people," but the very people we trusted most - our parents, teachers, leaders."
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"I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn't know how to handle anything,at any time,and I am not your fault."
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"It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium."
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"Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster."
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"The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on."
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"The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life more comfortable, is in danger of becoming a lesbian--an active, phallic woman, an intellectual virago with a fire of her own .... The lesbian body is a particularly pernicious and depraved version of the female body in general; it is susceptible to auto-eroticism, clitoral pleasure and self-actualization."
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"We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us."
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"It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed."
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"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."
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"Being an only child is a disease in itself."
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"There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable."
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"No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious."
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"Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first."
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"Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history."
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"The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps."
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"The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life."
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"The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well."
Love,
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"God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election."
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"The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men."
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"One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us."
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"For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence."
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"Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent."
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"Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear."
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"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
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"The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable."
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"The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life."
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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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"Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work."
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