Quotes About Psychology

If he controls your ideas he will soon control your actions, because every action is preceded by an idea.

About magistrates he said: "To do that kind of job you must be mentally disturbed. If they do that kind of job is because they are anthropologically different from the other human beings"

My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

D. W. Winnicott, un psychanaliste et pédiatre anglais: "Se réfugier dans la normalité, ce n'est pas la santé." (p.96)

I know, but he must have felt it that way, that evil was an emptiness, a lack of something, not a presence.' He turned his head fast and looked at me. 'That's what desire is, isn't it? The lack of something.

Most people aren't attacked by colors.

The secret to creativity is not in the so-called higher cognitive processes but in the dreamlike reconfigurations of emotional meanings that take place unconsciously

Seeing isn't always believing. Traumatic events are often accompanied by a form of disassociation.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.

I've always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.

Americans love to read about violence.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

I would love for the world to have a dog psychology center everywhere.

The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.

Psychologically, it's what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.

I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.

More succinctly put, Inspirational Psychology offers ways to live, learn about, and practice love.

Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.

And whoever forces himself to love anybody begets a murderer in his own body.