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Quotes by Psychologist
"To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind."
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"If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic."
48
"It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought."
48
"On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question."
48
"What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?"
48
"To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
48
"Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine."
Dogs,
48
"The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum."
48
"Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality."
48
"Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love."
48
"All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?"
48
"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?"
48
"I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth."
48
"Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt."
48
"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."
48
"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."
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"Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented."
48
"You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school."
48
"5.57am and I'm finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poetry on the paper. Inhale, exhale, it doesn't get much easier."
48
"A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view."
48
"Beautiful places are not just a joy for the moment, while you're there. They will become homes for you, spaces of solace and comfort, where you can close your eyes and go to. Nothing you experience will ever go away. It belongs to you now. Just feel. Don't be afraid to feel."
48
"Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases."
47
"Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life."
47
"It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right."
47
"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."
47
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
47
"Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death."
47
"You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy."
47
"Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension."
47
"Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery."
47
"I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years."
47
"The core of my personality consists of many selves."
47
"The development of man's intellectual capacities has far outstripped the development of his emotions. Man's brain lives in the twentieth century; the heart of most men lives still in the Stone Age. The majority of men have not yet acquired the maturity to be independent, to be rational, to be objective. They need myths and idols to endure the fact that man is all by himself, that there is no authority which gives meaning to life except man himself."
47
"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."
47
"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble."
47
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
47
"The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience of oneness.Thus paradoxical logic leads to the conclusion that the love of God is neither the knowledge of God in thought, nor the thought of one's love of God, but the act of experiencing the oneness with God."
47
"However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks."
47
"Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective."
Race,
47
"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse."
47
"Analogies it is true decide nothing but they can make one feel more at home."
47
"It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium."
47
"The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard."
47
"When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has."
47
"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
46
"Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history."
46
"One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults."
46
"Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent."
46
"We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives."
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