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Quotes by Psychologist
"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."
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"A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success."
40
"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?"
39
"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable."
39
"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."
39
"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."
38
"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."
38
"So much is asked of parents, and so little is given."
37
"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."
36
"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."
36
"Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken."
36
"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life."
36
"Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves."
35
"The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious."
34
"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."
34
"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."
34
"Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist."
Life,
34
"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."
34
"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve."
34
"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."
33
"What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization."
33
"Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight."
33
"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain."
33
"The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well."
32
"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."
32
"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."
32
"Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth."
32
"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country."
31
"The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true."
31
"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."
31
"The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation."
31
"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."
31
"When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic."
31
"Fear may come true that which one is afraid of."
30
"It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be."
30
"Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair."
29
"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."
29
"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."
29
"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?""
29
"A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species."
29
"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."
28
"When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there."
28
"I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health."
27
"Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven."
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