Quotes About Psychology

The house, the halls, and the rooms all become the self—collapsing, expanding, tilting, closing, but always in perfect relation to the mental state of the individual.

Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?

When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.

Može li netko ukrasti sre?u? Ili je i to još jedan unutarnji, pakleni ljudski trik?

Može li netko ukrasti sre?u? Ili je i to još jedan unutarnji, paklenski ljudski trik?

When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.

He talked to people and fooled them into liking him, trusting him. He talked to them while he was killing them, torturing and turning the knife. It was only when there was no one to talk to that he whistled, which was why he did so after a murder...

Aristóteles definió el miedo como el dolor producido por la aparente presencia inminente de algo malo o negativo, acompañado de una sensación de impotencia para repelerlo.

En una serie de famosos experimentos, el psicólogo Salomon Asch mostró que las personas presentan un nivel sorprendentemente elevado de sumisión a la presión de grupo, aun cuando sus iguales de ese grupo estén diciendo cosas que son evidentemente falsas, incluso sobre algo tan objetivo como cuál de las dos líneas que se les están mostrando es más larga (en una comparación en la que es evidente cuál es la respuesta correcta).

Asch también descubrió que bastaba con que una sola persona se atreviera a expresar su opinión y diera la respuesta correcta ante el sujeto del experimento para que este se sintiera liberado para responder correctamente también. El desacuerdo hace que la mente se libere del miedo.

In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no contest. Sadness carries identification. You know where it's been and you know where it's headed. Depression carries no papers. It enters your country unannounced and uninvited. Its origins are unknown, but its destination always dead-ends in you.

according to some medical psychologists, it's physiologically impossible for your mind to stay locked in a war of control when you're engaging its ability to generate compassion and appreciation.

So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.

Frightened people often hide behind anger.

The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves.

He tortured, not to force you to reveal a fact, but to force you to collude in a fiction.

Everybody dreams about being harmed. It's easy. Much tougher to recover from the dream of harming…

That left denial. If he pretended that he didn't have it, he could ignore the ways it was affecting his life. Denial sounded good.

In the summer of 1963, the Negroes of America wrote an emancipation proclamation to themselves. They shook off three hundred years of psychological slavery and said: We can make ourselves free. The old order ends, no matter what Bastilles remain, when the enslaved, within themselves, bury the psychology of servitude. This is what happened last year in the unseen chambers of millions of minds. This was the invisible but vast field of victory.

The Negro became, in his own estimation, the equal of any man. In the summer of 1963, the Negroes of America wrote an emancipation proclamation to themselves. They shook off three hundred years of psychological slavery and said: "We can make ourselves free." The old order ends, no matter what Bastilles remain, when the enslaved, within themselves, bury the psychology of servitude. This is what happened last year in the unseen chambers of millions of minds.

The proper study of mankind is man, you know.' 'You must study him, then

The proper study of mankind is man,' you know.

El charlatán es siempre el que va de descubierta. Del astrólogo salió el astrónomo, del alquimista el químico, y del mesmerismo, la psicología experimental. El charlatán de ayer será el profesor de mañana. Andando el tiempo, hasta una materia tan sutil y resbaladiza como la de los sueños será sistematizada y puesta en orden.

Brain-washing starts in the cradle.