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Quotes by Psychologist
"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?"
3
"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."
3
"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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"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."
3
"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."
3
"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."
3
"An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type."
3
"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."
3
"If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality."
3
"Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death."
3
"The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity."
3
"But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods."
3
"Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you."
3
"Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology."
3
"The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing."
3
"We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system."
3
"Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours."
3
"Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not."
3
"Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2."
3
"From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time."
3
"There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way."
3
"We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun."
3
"Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena."
3
"History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that."
3
"Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness."
3
"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."
3
"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way."
3
"Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving."
3
"Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no."
3
"I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions."
3
"But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially."
3
"My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did."
3
"The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe."
3
"I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies."
3
"The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella)."
3
"Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not."
3
"To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education."
3
"If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now."
3
"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."
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"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."
3
"During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions."
3
"There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing."
3
"Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time."
3
"A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now."
3
"Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach."
3
"Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea."
3
"Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for."
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