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Quotes by Psychologist
"Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts."
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"The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices."
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"If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement."
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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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"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism."
Love,
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"I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring."
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"It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble."
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"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
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"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands."
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"If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic."
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"Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together."
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"In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations."
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"We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts."
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"Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."
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"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
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"Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality."
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"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."
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"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."
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"Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex."
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"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
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"If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death."
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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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"We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today."
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"Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever."
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"In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help."
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"We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be."
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"Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop."
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"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
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"Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules."
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"Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development."
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"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?"
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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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"Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions."
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"Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults."
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"It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it."
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"What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it."
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"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."
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"Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures."
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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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"To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men."
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"The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love."
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"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."
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"Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge."
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"When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge."
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"Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously."
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"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."
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"Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men."
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