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Quotes by Psychologist
"The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought."
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"I can't change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it."
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"Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity."
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"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."
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"The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest."
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"Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it."
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"Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian."
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"Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis."
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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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"Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough."
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"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."
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"The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls."
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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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"Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves."
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"The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world."
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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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"What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now."
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"There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography."
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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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"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery."
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"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."
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"Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life."
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"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."
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"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."
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"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way."
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"I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies."
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"Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time."
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"The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life."
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"Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."
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"Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth."
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"Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary."
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"Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality."
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"It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
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"Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less."
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"All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before."
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"What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting."
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"I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics."
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"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."
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"I am running and singing and when it's raining I'm the only one left on the open street, smiling with my eyes fixed on the sky because it's cleaning me. I'm the one on the other side of the party, hearing laughter and the emptying of bottles while I peacefully make my way to the river, a lonely road, following the smell of the ocean. I'm the one waking up at 4am to witness the sunrise, where the sky touches the sea, and I hold my elbows, grasping tight to whatever I've made of myself."
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"In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena."
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"A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation."
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"I can't sleep alone anymoreand I get used tocompanytoo quickly. You're always gone too soon."
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"The goal and meaning of individual life (which is the only real life) no longer lie in individual development but in the policy of the State, which is thrust upon the individual from outside and consists in the execution of an abstract idea which ultimately tends to attract all life to itself."
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"If I stay close to the sea, I will go on well."
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"Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists."
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"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."
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"I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work and it's money and I've written more lists than songs lately. I stay up all night to do all these things I need to do, be all these things I want to be, playing with shadows in the darkness that shouldn't be able to exist. Empty bottles and cigarettes while watching the sunrise, why do I complain? I have it all, everything I ever asked for."
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