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Quotes by Psychologist
"The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?"
33
"The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious."
32
"What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization."
32
"I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life."
32
"Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist."
Life,
31
"The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other."
31
"He does not believe that does not live according to his belief ."
30
"Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken."
30
"Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality."
30
"Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane."
29
"Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."
29
"I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health."
27
"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve."
27
"In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection."
25
"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life."
25
"It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts."
24
"Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense."
24
"Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight."
24
"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain."
24
"If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it."
24
"He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore."
23
"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."
Man,
23
"The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly."
23
"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises."
23
"There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain."
22
"Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies."
21
"The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well."
21
"Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears."
21
"The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true."
21
"The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done."
21
"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others."
21
"Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves."
21
"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?""
21
"Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness."
21
"When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic."
21
"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."
20
"One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults."
20
"There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon."
20
"The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance."
20
"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."
20
"A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species."
20
"Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account."
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