Quotes About Psychology

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

Man is bound to lie about himself

Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.

I know how men think when they're not responding to questions in a clinical study.

If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive

All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.

Apparently the part of the brain that identified things as funny kept running as a background process even when its contributions were useless.

Richard's ex-girlfriends were long gone, but their voices followed him all the time and spoke to him, like Muses or Furies. It was like having seven superegos arranged in a firing squad before a single beleaguered id, making sure he didn't enjoy that last cigarette.

It wasn't just a matter of hiding what you really felt. If you hid your feelings well enough, it actually changed you. A

But what little I'd heard had left me amazed by how clever people were at finding ways to make each other crazy and miserable.

Meetings had never been her strong suit. She felt like she was playing an away game whenever she sat down in a conference room. Her awareness of this got in the way and turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Creo que lo que Camila quiere decir es que ciertos tipos de personalidad, si se llevan al extremo, son tan negativos como una enfermedad mental; si no peores

Humans were biology. They lived for the dopamine rush. They could get it either by putting the relevant chemicals directly into their bodies or by partaking of some clickbait that had been algorithmically perfected to make brains generate the dopamine through psychological alchemy. It was not a way to live long or to prosper, but it was a way of being as ineradicable, now, as the ragweed that flourished in the roadside ditches.

If you are that much of a control freak, what sexual preferences does that translate into?" "I hope I'll never know. I suppose you would want to dominate a woman." "Wrong!" Avi said. "Sex is more complicated than that, Randy.

All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us. Now, religion used to be essentially viral—a piece of information that replicated inside the human mind, jumping from one person to the next.

Denial is the mechanism here. And nowhere is denial more insidious than in self-denial.