Quotes About Psychology

There're a couple of books that discuss this," Heath said to his friend. "On Killing [by Dave Grossman] is a good one. He writes about cops, and he discusses troops from the Civil War all the way up to now.

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Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.

Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.

the connection between the escape from an ineffectual self and a responsiveness to mass movements is very clear. The slipping author, artist, scientist—slipping because of a drying-up of the creative flow within—drifts sooner or later into the camps of ardent patriots, race mongers, uplift promoters and champions of holy causes. Perhaps the sexually impotent are subject to the same impulse. (The

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.

Denial is a defense mechanism, all about self-preservation.

People who think a lot are more prone to mania than people who do not think a lot. That intelligent, creative, and thoughtful people are the ones more regularly afflicted by mania is beyond question.

You don't have to beat a woman if you can make her feel guilty.

We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it.

The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength of destructiveness. Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life.

The frightened individual seeks for somebody or something to tie his self to; he cannot bear to be his own individual self any longer, and he tries frantically to get rid of it and to feel security again by the elimination of this burden: the self.

The person who is normal in terms of being well adapted is often less healthy than the neurotic person in terms of human values. Often he is well adapted only at the expense of having given up his self in order to become more or less the person he believes he is expected to be.

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

I cannot know who I am, because I don't know which part of me is not me.

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

La peggiore di tutte le passioni umane, l'impulso a servirsi di un proprio simile per fini egoistici, in nome della propria superiorità, ben poco si differenzia da una forma raffinata di cannibalismo.

Reality imposes its law on man, laws that he can only escape in dreams or in states of trance—or in insanity.

Free man is by necessity insecure; thinking man by necessity uncertain.

They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity.

Feelings, not facts, are essential to a good gaslighting.

Writers know that if you want to portray a person succinctly, tellingly, you describe the way he eats. Food is the royal road to the unconscious.

It's just that, in the modern era, we're supposed to believe that human motives and emotions can be explained by psychological theories.