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Quotes by Psychologist
"Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior."
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"Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself."
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"Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability."
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"The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane."
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"Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts."
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"What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?"
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"After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever."
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"I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come."
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"Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development."
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"If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself since I am a human being too."
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"The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or political facts provide the real and sufficient explanation of sociological questions. On the other hand, the psychoanalyst must emphasize that the subject of sociology, society, in reality[,] consists of individuals, and that it is these human beings, rather than an abstract society as such, whose actions, thoughts, and feelings are the object of sociological research."Psychoanalysis and sociology. Pp. 37-39 inCritical theory and society: A reader, edited by S. Bronner and D. Kellner. New York: Routledge."
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"The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions."
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"A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes."
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"Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence."
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"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
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"The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world."
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"You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father."
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"The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence."
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"I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985."
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"Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown."
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"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."
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"Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out."
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"If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth."
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"The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation."
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"One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take."
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"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."
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"I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate."
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"It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade."
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"Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see."
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"The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other."
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"Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you."
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"Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not."
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"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside."
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"Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will."
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"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."
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"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality."
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"The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!"
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"As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care."
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"Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other."
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"War is organized murder and torture against our brothers."
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"It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for."
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"Your baby only needs a lot of light at night if he's reading or he's entertaining guests."
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"The problem of knowing man is parallel to the religious problem of knowing God. In conventional Western theology the attempt is made to know God by thought, to make statements about God. It is assumed that I can know God in my thought. In mysticism, which is the consequent outcome of monotheism, the attempt is given up to know God by thought, and it is replaced by the experience of union with God in which there is no more room-and no need-for knowledge about God."
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