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Quotes by Psychologist
"Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying."
60
"The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large."
57
"Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it."
57
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
55
"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."
55
"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life."
54
"Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves."
54
"In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning."
53
"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."
52
"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."
52
"Depression is the inability to construct a future."
51
"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain."
51
"The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious."
49
"A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success."
48
"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."
48
"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?"
47
"Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken."
46
"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve."
45
"A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence."
45
"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."
45
"What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization."
44
"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable."
44
"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country."
44
"Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors."
44
"The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes while his failures on the other hand are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth but force him to change his views and methods."
43
"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."
43
"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."
43
"So much is asked of parents, and so little is given."
43
"Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth."
43
"The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well."
42
"Why I write music? Because it hurts not to."
42
"Man absolutely cannot live by himself."
42
"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."
41
"Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist."
Life,
41
"The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true."
41
"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?""
41
"Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight."
40
"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."
40
"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."
39
"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."
39
"Fear may come true that which one is afraid of."
38
"I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent."
38
"An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore."
38
"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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