Quotes About Psychology

I just enjoy it and drive as fast I can. But so many people think your psychology is such a massive thing. For me, it's not necessary.

the experience of psychedelics is powerfully influenced by one's expectation; no other class of drugs are more suggestible in their effects.

change our understanding of the links between our brains and our minds.

the study of psychophysics proves that it is impossible to bore a German." Thankfully

Anyone can be crazy. That's usually just because there's something screwed up in your wiring, you know? But suicide is a whole different thing. I mean, how much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out?

It's a really crappy feeling to realize that your entire outook on your life can be controlled by some little pill that looks like a Pez, and that some weird combination of drugs can make your brain think it's on a holiday somewhere really sweet when you're standing naked in the middle of the school cafeteria while everyone takes pictures of you. Metaphorically. Or whatever.

I had been mad enough to study reason; I was reasonable enough to study madness.

U doba klasicizma, englesku setu rado objašnjavaju uticajem morskog podneblja: studen, vlaga, promenljivost vremena, sve one si?ušne vodene kapi što prodiru u pore i tkiva tela ?ove?jeg i ?ine da ono izgubi jedrinu, utiru put ludilu.

méthode, selon lequel tout donné a un droit originelm » ; la psychologie phénoménologique sera élucidation de ce droit originel tel qu'il concerne le donné dans le flux immanent de la conscience : elle constituera une éidétique de la conscience tout comme les mathématiques constituent une éidétique de la nature.

Telling a lie causes more centres of the brain to light up than telling the truth. Telling a lie implies that you know the truth but are thinking of the lie and its myriad consequences, which requires more energy than telling the truth.

Also, some dreams can incorporate events that happened a few hours earlier, just before sleep. But dreams mostly incorporate memories that are a few days old. For example, experiments have shown that if you put rose-colored glasses on a person, it takes a few days before the dreams become rose-colored as well.

THE UNCANNY VALLEY

The most ancient part of our brain is at the very back, where balance, territoriality, and instincts are processed. The brain expanded in the forward direction and developed the limbic system, the monkey brain of emotions, located in the center of the brain. This progression from the back to the front is also the way a child's brain matures.

Algunos críticos afirman también que un verdadero detector de mentiras, como un verdadero telépata, podría hacer que las relaciones sociales ordinarias resultasen muy incómodas, puesto que cierta cantidad de mentira es un «lubricante social» que engrasa las ruedas de la sociedad en movimiento.

from someone else. If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.

He has studied all the live strings of the human heart in the same way as one studies the veins of a dead body.

She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.

we have no idea anymore what it means to feel guilty. The Communists have the excuse that Stalin misled them. Murderers have the excuse that their mothers didn't love them.. . .No one could be more innocent, in his soul and conscience, than Oedipus. And yet he punished himself when he saw what he had done.

Le malade souffre de la déformation masochiste de sa mémoire

Além de eloquentes, esses sonhos eram belos. Esse é um aspecto que escapou a Freud na sua teoria dos sonhos. (...) O sonho é a prova que imaginar, sonhar com aquilo que não acontece, é uma das mais profundas necessidades do homem.

No se trataba más bien de la historia de un hombre que en lo más profundo de su alma ha tomado conciencia de su incapacidad de amar y que por eso mismo empieza a fingir amor ante sí mismo?

O tempo esporeado pelo ciúme passa a uma velocidade incrível. O ciúme ocupa o espírito ainda mais completamente do que um trabalho intelectual apaixonado. O espírito não tem sequer um segundo de ócio. Aquele que é presa do ciúme ignora o aborrecimento

La maquinaria psicológica y fisiológica del amor es tan compleja que en determinada época de su vida, un joven debe concentrar toda su energía casi exclusivamente en aprender a manejarla.

You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.