Quotes About Psychology

If you put negative things out about anyone every day, they're gonna start believing it, sorta like propaganda if you think about it.

During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.

I don't actually do anything special to get in the proper frame of mind for creepy/heinous scenes.

There is a close meshing with the ritual properties of persons and with the egocentric forms of territoriality.

Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it.

While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.

Positive psychologists' claims contrast with the results of sociological studies that relate increasing individualism to higher rates of depression and even suicide in developed as well as in developing countries.

It could be said that, had it not already existed, corporations might have invented positive psychology themselves.

in that city there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

the Yale professor Stanley Milgram's infamous 1961 experiment sought to investigate the extent to which ordinary people would obey the orders of figures in authority to inflict pain on others. On one side of a room divided by a one-way mirror, a scientist ordered a volunteer to deliver electrical shocks of ever-increasing strength to a person strapped to a chair on the other side of the room whenever she or he gave wrong answers to questions read from a questionnaire.

The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person.

He's quite as nervously broken down as I am, but it manifests itself in different ways. His inclination is toward megalomania and mine toward melancholy.

The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, (P. 1)

Men don't know how to be really angry or really happy—and the ones that do, go to pieces.

My troubles are not outside me,' said Esther, 'they are inside me. Those are the worst troubles of all.

A alma humana é um manicómio de caricaturas.

The human soul is a madhouse of the grotesque.

In another age we mastered the physical ocean, thereby creating universal civilization; now we will master the psychological ocean, emotion, mother human nature, thereby creating intellectual civilization.

To reduce sensation to a science, to make psychological analysis into a microscopically precise method - that's the goal that occupies, like a steady thirst, the hub of my life's will.

Para mí, la humanidad es un vasto motivo de ornamentación que vive en los ojos y en los oídos y acaso en la emoción sicológica.

they were all, if the truth was only known, a little bit off in their heads. What possible reason could a sane person have for wanting to not enjoy himself any more?