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Quotes by Psychologist
"The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness."
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"An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type."
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"We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions."
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"Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it."
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"The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity."
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"Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena."
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"Equality today means "sameness" rather than "oneness"."
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"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self."
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"What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people."
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"Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race."
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"Go outside. Don't tell anyone and don't bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day out, to the bus and back home and we cease to see. We walk in our sleep and teach our muscles to work without thinking and I dare you to walk where you have not yet walked and I dare you to notice. Don't try to get anything out of it, because you won't. Don't try to make use of it, because you can't. And that's the point. Just walk, see, sit down if you like. And be. Just be, whatever you are with whatever you have, and realise that that is enough to be happy. There's a whole world out there, right outside your window. You'd be a fool to miss it."
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"If I want to understand an individual human being, I must lay aside all scientific knowledge of the average man and discard all theories in order to adopt a completely new and unprejudiced attitude. I can only approach the task of understanding with a free and open mind, whereas knowledge of man, or insight into human character, presupposes all sorts of knowledge about mankind in general."
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"We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive."
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"As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity."
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"Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending."
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"Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy."
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"Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body."
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"Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing."
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"Routine physical punishment such as spanking teaches a toddler that might makes right and that it is fine to hit when one is stronger and can get away with it."
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"If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin."
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"The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death."
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"You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day."
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"If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated."
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"Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster."
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"Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account."
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"The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years, while I am only a passing phenomenon which bursts into all kinds of emotions, like a flame that flares up quickly and then goes out."
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"A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power."
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"Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves."
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"Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish."
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"The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used."
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"Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after."
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"Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work."
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"Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters."
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"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."
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"I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?"
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"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."
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"A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him."
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"The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series."
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"The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances."
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"There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform."
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"Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine."
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"Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence."
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"If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth."
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"Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena."
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"If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now."
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