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Quotes by Psychologist
"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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"A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations."
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"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail."
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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."
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"The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity."
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"Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances."
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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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"There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art."
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"The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?"
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"Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework."
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"In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave."
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"Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures."
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"The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt."
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"Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship."
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"The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances."
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"When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition."
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"Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul."
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"The real question isn't whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved."
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"One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take."
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"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
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"I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience."
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"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."
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"Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine."
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"Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account."
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"Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts."
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"The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion."
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"People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages."
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"Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right."
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"Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed."
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"No man wants to feel that he's there because of his woman's biological clock or because he's filling a job opening for husband or significant other."
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"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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"A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?"
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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,
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"Relationships based on obligation lack dignity."
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"The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces."
Evil,
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"It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation."
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"A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness."
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"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."
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"Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see."
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"Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it."
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"Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is."
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"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."
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"Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence."
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