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Quotes by Psychologist
"I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast."
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"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."
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"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."
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"He does not believe that does not live according to his belief ."
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"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."
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"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."
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"There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon."
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"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture."
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"Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."
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"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain."
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"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."
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"The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true."
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"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?""
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"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."
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"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."
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"When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic."
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"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality."
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"Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression."
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"By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed."
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"Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves."
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"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life."
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"Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account."
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"When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there."
12
"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent."
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"In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women."
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"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."
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"A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species."
12
"Love and work... work and love, that's all there is."
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"Fear may come true that which one is afraid of."
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"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."
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"The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity."
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"There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain."
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"We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives."
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"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."
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"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."
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"Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple."
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"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others."
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"Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride."
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