Psychology Quotes

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...

It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want ...

Daydream, which is to thought as the nebula is to the star, borders on sleep, and is concerned with ...

For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thou...

For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how man...

I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.

By what incomprehensible mechanism are our organs held in subjection to sentiment and thought? How i...

It looked as though you did not act in a certain way because you thought in a certain way, but rathe...

We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is a...

It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary ...

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms th...

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destr...

The [character-]armored, mechanistically rigid person thinks mechanistically, produces mechanistic t...

Wilhelm Reich identified "armor" as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individua...

From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosoph...

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.

In certain diseased conditions consciousness is a mere spark, without memory of the past or thought ...

Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility...