Psychology Quotes

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of ...

Sciences can only be validly constituted as ‘sacred sciences’ by those who, before all else, are in ...

Happiness is a state of mind, not a set of circumstances.

It is our ability to forget our problems, through the process of thought, rather than the passage of...

Happiness is a state of mind, not a set of circumstances.

It is our ability to forget our problems, through the process of thought, rather than the passage of...

No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something th...

Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.

The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger.

The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled ...

...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its ca...

...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its ca...

...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its ca...

...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its ca...

The application of this knife, the division of the world into parts and the building of this structu...

But the ones who go posing as moralists are the worst. Cost-free morals. Full of great ways for othe...

The offspring cannot rely on its parents for disinterested guidance. One expects the offspring to be...

Let us leave in suspension such debates about the economic costs of the War and look at another kind...

But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for wh...

But there also seems to be in our culture a curious cautiousness—“You’ll get these abundant gratific...

Half of life is lost in charming others.The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by ...

We all do things in a certain individual way, according to our temperaments. Every human act — no ma...

But society is ignorant and venomous, devoid of any trace of insight or understanding. It exalts kna...

Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly.

It is generally argued that our experience of free will presents a compelling mystery: On the one ha...

If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is de...

If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is de...

If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is de...

If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is de...

If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is de...

If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is de...

If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is de...

If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is de...

Some people embrace their gifts with gratitude. Others have no use for them and can think only of ov...

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of ...

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a stat...

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

This time once again it has been my chief aim to make no sacrifice to an appearance of being simple,...

When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.

Every man is a poet at heart.

The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life m...

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to...

There is only one state- admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as patholo...

I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling o...

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally t...

It is that we are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhapp...

we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., ...

He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of th...

If we turn to those restrictions that only apply to certain classes of society, we encounter a state...

Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.

How do we account for this paradox that the absence of Law universalizes prohibition ... The psychoa...

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

So when the ruling ideology enjoins us to enjoy sex, not to feel guilty about it, since we are not b...

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire the other is to get it.

It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of ...

As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth,...

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the un...

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can be...

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself tha...

Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?

Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthu...

Mathilde made an effort to use the more intimate form; she was evidently more attentive to this unus...

A person can't change all at once.

She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you sh...

A man who doubts himself shouldn't have to try too hard for too long, not until he's seasoned.

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have ...

Evolution is central to the understanding of life, including human life. Like all living things, we ...

Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conce...

Thinking is computation, I claim, but that does not mean that the computer is a good metaphor for th...

The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalism,...

Behavioral science is not for sissies.

Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive ...

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy wi...

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated sp...

Recovered. Had my personality crossed over that border, whatever and wherever it was, to resume life...

I wasn't convinced I was crazy, though I feared I was. Some people say that having any conscious opi...

All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No.

The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.

A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money.

The difficult thing is not to pick up the information but to recognise it - to accept it into our co...

There is the inner life, which is the world of final reality, the world of memory, emotion, imaginat...

Well, the terrible fact is that though we are all more or less thinking of something or other all th...

It is human nature to strive.

I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our...

The wizards were civilized men of considerable education and culture. When faced with being inadvert...

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

To allow oneself to be carried awayBy a multitude of conflicting concerns,To surrender to too many d...

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a...

A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psycholo...

The change of the word does not alter the matter

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something o...

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about pers...

That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not co...

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves t...

There is another Brain Principle to go with ‘First Things First’: that of‘Last Things Too’. This sta...

A truly intelligent person is not one who can simply spout wordsand numbers; it is someone who can r...