Quotes About Psychology

Since we're hard-wired to experience emotions before we can respond to them, it's the one-two punch of reading emotions effectively and then reacting to them that sets the best self-managers apart.

Why did I submit myself to the butchery of the trenches when I might have served in the echelons as a medical officer? Even the most rudimentary knowledge of Doctor Freud would suggest that I was pursuing a death wish

People who fear greatly can sometimes substitute themselves for the thing they fear

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.

En suma todo el mundo, si se mira bien, participa de alguna de esas categorías. Cada uno de nosotros de vez en cuando es un cretino, un imbécil, un estúpido o un loco. Digamos que la persona normal es la que combina razonablemente todos esos componentes o tipos ideales.

Monkeys do not laugh. Laughter is particular to men.

El hecho de que la humanidad haya practicado la guerra durante decenas de miles de años como una solución a los estados de desequilibrio no es más convincente que el hecho de que en el mismo período la humanidad haya decidido resolver los desequilibrios psicológicos recurriendo al alcohol o a otras drogas.

Fire is therefore too many things and – as well as being a psychological phenomenon – it becomes a symbol, and like all symbols it is ambiguous, polysemic and evokes different meanings according to the situation.

If you fail to have an erection the first time, you're impotent for the rest of your life.

It's different for the sociopaths, of course. They're just along for the ride.

Truly it seemed that a great people had gone mad; but it is a fact well known to alienists that you cannot convince a madman of his own condition, and only make him madder by trying.

In the south, you see, a lady takes for granted the slave-psychology in those she regards as her social inferiors. Not merely does she expect immediate obedience from all members of the colored race; she feels the same way about policemen in uniform--it would never occur to her to think of a policeman as anything but a servant, prepared to behave as such.

He explained Adi's propaganda technique of choosing a big lie and repeating it incessantly until everybody believed it;

Adolf Hitler had a favorite word, fanaticism, which was hardly ever omitted from any of his speeches, and he had put skilled psychologists and advertising men at work to make certain that the new generations of Germans would never know anything else.

But they were civilized cats, which had learned manners, and applied psychology, pretending to be gentle and harmless, even amiable. The deadliest killers wore the most cordial smiles; the most cunning were the most dignified, the most exalted. They had a great cause, an historic destiny, a patriotic duty, an inspired leader. They said: "We are building a new Germany," and at the same time they thought: "How can I cut out this fellow's guts?

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As the poet Philip Larkin famously said, 'They fuck you up, your mum and dad.' Sometimes, it only takes one of them.

The key to our present behaviour lies in our past.

Only later we learned that by fainting Peter was protecting himself from the awareness of his wish that the mother of his early childhood would die.

projective identification.194 From childhood on, human beings utilize certain mental mechanisms to get rid of unpleasant aspects of themselves and assign them to others. Members of one group in conflict may attempt to define their identity through externalizing and projecting unwanted aspects onto the enemy.

When people are to be slaughtered en masse, the local population is not immediately gripped by a bloodthirsty hatred of the old men, women and children who are to be destroyed. It is necessary to prepare the population by means of a special campaign. And in this case it is not enough to rely merely on the instinct for self-preservation; it is necessary to stir up feelings of real hatred and revulsion.

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