Quotes About Psychology

But Jung also pointed out: "One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

every unpleasant feeling we have has an unconscious motivation.

Imagine having a mood system that functions essentially like weather—independently of whatever's going on in your life.

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.

Demony s? archetypami. Mieszkaj? w ka?dym z nas

The more I attempted to escape through self-consultation, self-help therapies, psychology, psychiatry, and self-analysis, the more frustrated I became.

People are more likely to object to nudges that appeal to unconscious or subconscious processes.

in the event of an "authoritarian revolution," authoritarians may seek massive social change in pursuit of greater oneness and sameness, willingly overturning established institutions and practices that their (psychologically) conservative peers would be drawn to defend and preserve.

Social scientists emphasize that people use the "availability heuristic," which means that we assess risks by asking whether a bad (or good) event is cognitively "available." It

Covertly influencing decision processes such as that the resulting decision is aligned with higher-order desires may actually enhance autonomy.

Some rumors simultaneously relieve "a primary emotional urge" and offer an explanation, to those who accept them, of why they feel as they do; the rumor "rationalizes while it relieves.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

The most insidious thing about bondage was how easy it was to grow accustomed to it.

A félelem mélyebbre hatol, mint a penge.

The greatest weapon against the so-called "battle fatigue" is ridicule.

Depression is rage spread thin.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Guilt is the fertilizer that feeds resentment.

The thing about denial is that it doesn't feel like denial when it's going on.

Is a joke truly funny when we laugh at it, or is it merely some aberration of our frontal lobe?

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the ru)e.