Quotes About Psychology

E cunoscut faptul c? umorul, mai mult decât orice alt atribut uman, înlesneÈ™te o anumit? detaÈ™are È™i permite individului s? se ridice deasupra circumstanÈ›elor, fie È™i numai pentru câteva momente.

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Frankl approvingly quotes the words of Nietzsche: He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.

Bir insan?n ac? çekmesi, boÅŸ bir odadaki gaz?n davran???na benzer. BoÅŸ bir odaya belli miktarda gaz verildiÄŸi zaman, oda ne kadar büyük olursa olsun, gaz odan?n tamam?na yay?l?r. Dolay?s?yla insan?n çektiÄŸi ac?n?n 'büyüklüÄŸü' kesinlikle görecelidir.

It is the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear.

As we have just observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness.

for it is a mistake to think that talking to one's self is not natural. Powerful emotions often speak aloud

Nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness.

The mind is reluctant to embrace deep change, and will play devious games to maintain the status quo.

During the previous centuries in the entire world, there had been perhaps two hundred reported cases of multiple personality disorder; during the 1970s, the decade of Sybil, there were around four hundred, mainly among American women, especially highly hypnotizable women.

In America from the late 1960s on, equality came to mean not just that the law should treat everyone identically but that your beliefs about anything are equally as true as anyone else's. As the principle of absolute tolerance became axiomatic in our culture and internalized as part of our psychology—What I believe is true because I want and feel it to be true—individualism turned into rampant solipsism.

Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases

In short—to overstate the point only slightly—because people don't really know why they do what they do, they give explanations of their own behavior that are about as reliable as anyone else's, and in many circumstances actually less so.

But they were masters of the mind game.

pathological narcissism

The threat of violence can be almost as stressful as actually suffering or witnessing violence.

Time and again, we let the fear of loss overpower rational decision-making and often make ourselves worse off just to avoid a potential loss. Psychologists call this loss aversion, and it means we often tend to prefer avoiding losses at the expense of acquiring gains.

the pain of losing a dollar is far more powerful than the pleasure of winning a dollar.

so often the appearance of lunacy in sports isn't lunacy at all. As outlandish as sports conduct might seem, it is rooted in basic human psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive tendency.

The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.

Did we not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never hurt us.

Katherine, after all, had a way of turning all her feelings into food for the demons.

Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.

It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of his colleagues with those of the students of the principal physical sciences.