Quotes About Psychology

I don't think you're human if you don't get nervous.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.

Life is crazy and meaningful at once.

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)

It must be a hard life to be the child of a psychologist.

The brain is just the physical machine that runs the program called the mind. The brain is the hardware, the mind is the software.

The ability of humans to speak a modern language and the evolution of our ability to think about ourselves thinking about ourselves thus appear to parallel each other.

F]riendship is a method of castration that doesn't use a sharp object.

I grew up with very normal, stable people," Brooke continued. "We acted normal all day long in my family. So normal I wanted to stab my eyes out. So I'm like an expert. And you? You are not normal. You should think about getting help for it, is what I'm saying.

Deprived of support it perished or was re-absorbed into the part of the mind that seldom speaks.

The term which psychology has coined for our relative imperviousness to the dizzy variations that go on in the world around us is "constancy." The color, shape, and brightness of things remain to us relatively constant, even though we may notice some variation with the change of distance, illumination, angle of vision, and so on.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood.

But man is an odd, sad creature as yet, intent on pilfering the earth, and heedless of the growths within himself. He cannot be bored about psychology. He leaves it to the specialist, which is as if he should leave his dinner to be eaten by a steam-engine. He cannot be bothered to digest his own soul.

Were they normal? What a question to ask! And it is always those who know nothing about human nature, who are bored by psychology and shocked by physiology, who ask it.

A man does not talk to himself quite truly — not even to himself: the happiness or misery that he secretly feels proceeds from causes that he cannot quite explain, because as soon as he raises them to the level of the explicable they lose their native quality.

While behavior is almost always motivated, it is also almost always biologically, culturally and situationally determined as well.

Moreover, dissonance-evoking situations have been found to evoke a general negative affect without also evoking increased self-directed negative affect (Elliot & Devine, 1994) or decreased state self-esteem (E. Harmon-Jones, 2000a).

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity

Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort of the beauty and flavour of food, the increase of blood sugar and physical well-being, help one to go on during the next hours better equipped to meet the problems (p. 124).

y Aráoz ya había aprendido que el miedo es una excelente llave para guardar cosas en la memoria.

Todos somos cobardes», pensé, «sólo es cuestión de que nos atemoricen lo suficiente».