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Quotes by Psychologist
"A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm."
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"A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology."
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"I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget about gravity for an hour."
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"We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of."
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"We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us."
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"Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily."
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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 am very proud of being the one to have coined the word."
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"Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth."
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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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"If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up."
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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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"I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge."
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"If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life."
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"No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training."
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"At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified."
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"Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built."
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"The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either."
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"Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts."
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"Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency."
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"When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label."
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"One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself."
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"If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts."
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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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"A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power."
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"We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality."
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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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"Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed."
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"Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?"
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"The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio."
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"Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny."
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"I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name."
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"There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear."
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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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"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from."
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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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"People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change."
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"Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away."
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"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds."
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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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"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better."
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"Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness."
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"Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers."
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"The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds."
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"For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white."
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