Quotes About Psychology

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

All of us, as much as we like to think that we're evolved human beings, we're all still children deep down.

It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.

Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.

I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what I really think has happened here.

All my work is always that exploration of human nature.

Criminality is a basic part of human nature.

Human nature fascinates me.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.

A lot of time I fight guys and after a few rounds, they accept my dominance. They aren't fighting to win anymore. They're fighting to not lose. I've seen it many times. It's very hard for me to finish a guy like this. He doesn't want to get hurt. It's normal. It's human nature.

I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists. What I mean by this is we don't just respond to things as we see them or feel them or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their hidden nature is.

Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

You look at players who are off form and there's a general disappointment, their confidence goes low and their whole demeanour can change. I've seen it hundreds of times but it's difficult to know what's really going on inside someone's mind.

The two of us wrote Anti-Oedipus together. Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd.

Marxism and Freudianism are the two fundamental bureaucracies. Marx and Freud may be the dawn of our culture, but with Nietzsche, something altogether different occurs: the dawn of a counterculture.

the schizophrenic delirium lays bare the material processes of the unconscious

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them," Amma said, pulling another Blow Pop from her pocket. Cherry. "Know what I mean? If someone wants to do fucked-up things to you, and you let them, you're making them more fucked up. Then you have the control. As long as you don't go crazy.

She'll never really let me go. She likes the game too much. Then stop playing it.

She had what the Victorians would call a finely shaped head . You could imagine the skull quite easily. I'd know her head anywhere. And what's inside it. I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic centipedes. Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts. What are you thinking, Amy?

She talked to me because we had the same chemicals in our blood: shame, anger, greed. Unjustified nostalgia.

you'd literally lie, cheat, and steal -hell, kill- to convince people you are a good guy

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them. Know what I mean? If someone wants to do fucked-up things to you, and you let them, you're making them more fucked up. Then you have the control. As long as you don't go crazy.

Another time-honored ploy: A woman is less likely to throw you out if she's offered her hospitality. If you have allergies or a cold, asking for a tissue is even better. Women love vulnerability. Most women.