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Quotes by Psychologist
"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."
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"A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe."
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"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash."
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"I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and write raw and ugly about all these things I see and am and could be."
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"From error to error one discovers the entire truth."
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"What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it."
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"There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all."
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"I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone."
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"My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen."
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"We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear."
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"Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously."
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"A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen."
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"That's what's so great about my job. I get paid to do what got me in trouble in grade school space out and play with my imaginary friends. In terms of Isaac, when the time's right."
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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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"This is the story of a girl gone mad while trying to find a little bit of love."
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"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization."
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"Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational."
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"The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place."
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"But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school."
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"There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it."
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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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"What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me."
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"I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning."
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"This experience of being loved by mother is a passive one. There is nothing I have to do in order to be loved-mother's love is unconditional. All I have to do is to be-to be her child. Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."
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"When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War."
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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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"It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized."
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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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"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent."
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"This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge."
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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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"People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware."
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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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"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
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"Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right."
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"I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation."
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"Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown."
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"Relationships based on obligation lack dignity."
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"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."
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"Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable."
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"Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others."
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"Manage yourself first and others will take your orders."
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"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees."
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"Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV."
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"It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble."
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"One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king."
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"For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them."
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