Quotes About Psychology

The passion with which native intellectuals defend the existence of their national culture may be a source of amazement; but those who condemn this exaggerated passion are strangely apt to forget that their own psyche and their own selves are conveniently sheltered behind a French or German culture which has given full proof of its existence and which is uncontested.

le n**** esclave de son infériorité, le Blanc esclave de sa supériorité, se comportent tous deux selon une ligne d'orientation névrotique.

At the level of the unconscious, therefore, colonialism was not seeking to be perceived by the indigenous population as a sweet, kind-hearted mother who protects her child form a hostile environment, but rather a mother who constantly prevents her basically perverse child from committing suicide or giving free reign to its malevolent instincts. The colonial mother is protecting the child from itself, from its ego, its physiology, its biology, and its ontological misfortune. (149)

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

I must be an emotional archaeologist because I keep looking for the roots of things, particularly the roots of behavior and why I feel certain ways about certain things.

There are people who never pass a certain point in their emotional development. They cannot live a normal free-and-easy, give-and-take life with a sexual partner for more than a short time. Something inside them will not tolerate happiness. The better it gets, the more they have to destroy it.

ìIdleness is the parent of all psychologyî

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Not a few who meant to drive out their demons went thereby into the swine themselves.

Toute erreur doctrinale s'accompagne d'une erreur psychologique à l'égard de ceux qui en sont indemnes : l'athéisme par exemple se prend volontiers pour un héroïsme moral; il ne peut concevoir de théisme libre de toute faiblesse, de tout désir sentimental. Suspicion injuste, car on peut tout admettre par sentimentalité, l'inexistence de Dieu aussi bien que le contraire.

When one denies the supernatural it is unwise to hold forth on matters that have no meaning without it or to busy oneself with the psychology of those who accept it.

Master your emotions.

Understand patterns and people become easier.

don't have nightmares," Muriel said. "I give them to other people.

I don't have nightmares," Muriel said. "I give them to other people.

It was simply the way of human beings, subtly changing the past in their minds to match their current beliefs.

What they do not realize—and what you must realize—is that manipulating others is something that all people do. In fact, manipulation is at the core of our social interaction.

People rarely want to kill, David. It's not the basic makeup of the healthy human mind. In most situations they will go to great lengths to avoid killing. Remember that, and it will help you.

What they do not realise - and what you must realise - is that manipulating others is something that all people do. In fact, manipulation is at the core of our social interaction.

The human mind was very clever at tricking itself, at keeping the despair of inevitability at bay.

I'm not crazy, I'm compratmentalized.