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Quotes by Psychologist
"I think people need to recognize that those of us who have been so much influenced by violence in the media- in particular pornographic violence- are not some kinds of inherent monsters. We are your sons, and we are your husbands. And we grew up in regular families."
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"In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn."
32
"I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943."
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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."
32
"Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body."
32
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."
32
"The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare."
32
"A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous."
32
"Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology."
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"One extends one's limits only by exceeding them."
32
"As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension."
32
"I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled."
32
"There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal."
32
"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing."
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"The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation."
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"There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively."
32
"On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions."
32
"Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments."
32
"You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good."
32
"Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life."
32
"A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray."
32
"To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active."
32
"Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say."
32
"In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact."
32
"Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy."
32
"But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever."
32
"Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment."
32
"The sight of a child will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons - longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona."
32
"Frankl approvingly quotes the words of Nietzsche: 'He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How."
32
"Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress."
32
"Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly."
Want,
32
"There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion."
32
"Horizons, cheap whisky straight from the bottleand your hands in mine."
32
"True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is."
32
"Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit."
32
"Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions."
32
"Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity."
32
"At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons. There is nothing in the Tower that has not grown into its own form over the decades, nothing with which I am not linked. Here everything has its history, and mine; here is space for the spaceless kingdom of the world's and the psyche's hinterland."
32
"Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost."
32
"I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture."
32
"Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action."
32
"The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight."
32
"Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child."
32
"On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character."
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