Quotes About Psychology

I think everything I do is normal, not paranormal but normal. It's using the power of the mind to achieve whatever we can endure.

No person is just one particular emotion.

A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.

Most people are sincere, because this is the easiest course to take psychologically.

If the satisfaction to be derived from each successive increase in wealth is smaller than the satisfaction derived from the previous increase in wealth, then the disutility caused by a loss will always exceed the positive utility provided by a gain of equal size.

Ask yourself whether the letter K appears more often as the first or as the third letter of English words. You will probably answer that it appears more often as the first letter. Actually, K appears as the third letter twice as often. Why the error? We find it easier to recall words with a certain letter at the beginning than words with that same letter somewhere else.

Science fiction authors have made contributions to science, such as Arthur C. Clarke and his invention of geosynchronous satellite, among other ideas. Fantasy and horror authors make (unconscious) contributions to occultism and magic by identifying information at deep levels of the human psyche. By focusing on fear and horror, these authors directly address our most hidden nature, which is another way of saying that they open a Gate into the Mauve Zone.

the Necronomicon is also a manual not only of dream interpretation (a la Freud) but of dream control.

There appears to be a correlation between secure attachment and beliefs that are centrist.

she had been perfectly agreeable until I showed my face. That's how it is with that kind of madness. Ninety-nine per cent of the time they seem perfectly sane.

and male company in Mireille's neurasthenic

Hitler's power came from his ability to sense the fears and hopes of his audiences and give them back in heightened form.

Clausewitzian strategy of seeking the most expeditious means of weakening the enemy's will to continue the struggle.28

But would she ever recover fully inside? How would she handle being alone in the house? Would she ever again be able to hear someone walking up the garden path without that twinge of fear and panic? He didn't know. The psyche regenerates itself, too, sometimes. We're often a damn sight more resilient than we'd imagine.

When Equus leaves - if he leaves at all - it will be with your intestines in his teeth.

Of a techno-human culture that wants to be more than a successful barbarism, two things above all are required: psychological cultural formation and the cultural capacity for translation. Mathematicians must become poets, cyberneticists must become philosophers of religion, doctors must become composers, computer scientists must become shamans. Was humanity ever something other than the art of managing transitions?

Ecstasy, as philosophy understands it, is not a phenomenon of light-headedness that interests psychologists or chemists, but the way in which the being represents itself as tenseness in an Elsewhere

The mind was a trap--it was a cage that slammed down over you.

There is a known correlation between denial of one's sexuality and a propensity to self-destructive behaviour.

most people would rather feel guilty than feel helpless.

We also know, of course, that human beings are not perfectly rational calculators. Our behavior and decisions are based on a mixture of calculation, emotions, and internalized norms, with calculation often a minor component of the cocktail.

Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives (1988) by John Douglas

Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters.xxi

While a facilitator, detective magazines or porn on their own do not necessarily make people into serial killers.