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Quotes by Psychologist
"Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity."
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"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."
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"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way."
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"Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist."
Life,
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"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."
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"Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference."
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"There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way."
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"It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them."
May,
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"Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach."
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"What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command."
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"I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador - an adventurer, if you want it translated - with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort."
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"The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning."
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"Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable."
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"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity."
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"A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species."
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"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."
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"The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life."
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"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."
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"I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result."
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"Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression."
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"Immature loves says ' I love because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you."
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"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."
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"Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin."
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"We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts."
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"Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves."
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"Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology."
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"What is freedom as a human experience? Is the desire for freedom something inherent in human nature? Is it an identical experience regardless of what kind of culture a person lives in, or is it something different according to the degree of individualism reached in a particular society? Is freedom only the absence of external pressure or is it also the presence of something-and if so, of what? What are the social and economic factors in society that make for the striving for freedom? Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from? Why then is it that freedom is for many a cherished goal and for others a threat?"
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"Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul."
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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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"Fear may come true that which one is afraid of."
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"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better."
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"The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization."
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"An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore."
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"Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair."
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"We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security."
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"It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way."
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"Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge."
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"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
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"Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn."
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"I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist."
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"What the psychological analysis of doctrines can show is the subjective motivations which make a person aware of certain problems and make him seek answers in certain directions. Any kind of though, true or false, is motivated by the subjective needs and interests of the person who is thinking. It happens that some interests are furthered by finding the truth, others by destroying it."
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"The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience of oneness."
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"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea."
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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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"The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power."
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