Quotes About Psychology

In all ages statesmen have found it hard to understand the psychology of revolutionary governments bound to the wheel of armaments and debts. For it is a cycle that cannot be reversed. It can only be broken or its pace accelerated.

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.

Now that so many of its psychological problems had been removed, humanity was far saner and less irrational. And what earlier ages would have called vice was now no more than eccentricity—or, at the worst, bad manners.

excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological.

But you must remember you're dealing with human beings. You can transport them to another world and give them a paradise, but they still come equipped with their fears and insecurities and cultural predilections.

Fortunately, human beings are extraordinarily resilient: it takes a pretty bad upbringing to do permanent damage.

I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.

Fear and guilt are sisters;

People," the doctor said sadly, "are always so anxious to get things out into the open where they can put a name to them, even a meaningless name, so long as it has something of a scientific ring.

A person angry, or laughing, or terrified, or jealous, will go stubbornly on into extremes of behavior impossible at another time;

A clean house is a sign of mental inferiority.

You'll ask: how can people understand one another without talking? Well that shows that you really know psychology. But not people!

Despite the fact that your psychology says that an old bachelor is an egoist. Maybe that in itself is egoism.

Psychology means parsley. It looks pretty, smells nice, and, if you put in into a stew, it's tasty. But go chew parsley raw! Not interested, huh?

You see, you've asked why and you're willing to listen to me. That shows true psychology! But the main thing is not to interrupt me with questions

she could go from a blissful euphoria to a desperate misery. She had no control over her emotions.

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind

Where id is, there shall ego be

The ego is not master in its own house.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.