Quotes About Psychology

The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.

We are all insane to one degree or another, and the most functional of us merely hides it the best.

Isolated, he may be a cultivated individual; in a crowd, he is a barbarian—that is, a creature acting by instinct.

that the crowd is always intellectually inferior to the isolated individual, but that, from the point of view of feelings and of the acts these feelings provoke, the crowd may, according to circumstances, he better or worse than the individual. All depends on the nature of the suggestion to which the crowd is exposed.

This very fact that crowds possess in common ordinary qualities explains why they can never accomplish acts demanding a high degree of intelligence.

The tyranny exercised unconsciously on men's minds is the only real tyranny, because it cannot be fought against.

It is time in particular that prepares the opinions and beliefs of crowds, or at least the soil on which they will germinate.

The psychological crowd is a provisional being formed of heterogeneous elements, which for a moment are combined, exactly as the cells which constitute a living body form by their reunion a new being which displays characteristics very different from those possessed by each of the cells singly.

An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.

It is as interesting to decipher the motives of the actions of men as to determine the characteristics of a mineral or a plant.

Fertlerin bilinçli faaliyetlerinin yerini, kitlelerin bilinçsiz eylemlerinin almas?.

?nsan? yöneten, özümüzdeki unsurlard?r, yani fikirler, duygular ve adetler. Kurumlar ve kanunlarsa ruhumuzun harici kar??l???, ihtiyaçlar?n?n bir ifadesidir.

Kitle, tuhaf biçimde dü?ük seviyeli bir zihniyet sergiler.

Kitleler hiçbir zaman bilinçli ?ekilde hareket etmezler ama belki de bu vasf?n kendisi, güçlerinin s?rlar?ndan biridir.

?çgüdüleri taraf?ndan yönetilen varl?klara ait eylemlerin karma??kl??? bizi hayrete dü?ürür.

Bütün eylemlerimizde bilinç d???n?n pay? büyük.

Baz? fikirler ve duygular vard?r ki ancak kitle halindeki bireylerde ortaya ç?kar veya eyleme dönü?ür.

Bir ?rk?n ruhunu olu?turan bilinç d??? unsurlar, ona mensup tüm bireylerin birbirlerine benzemesini sa?larken farkl?la?malar?na yol açansa e?itimin ve özellikle de istisnai bir kal?t?m?n neticesine olan bilinçli unsurlard?r.

The parts of the body are the closest and most immediate things in our physical environment, and are thus most deeply imprinted in our cognition, so it is no wonder that body-parts are the sources of terms for all kinds of more abstract concepts in so many languages.

Victimismo y resentimiento son caras de la misma moneda. Una de esas monedas ha sido nuestro nacionalismo.

H. Havelock Ellis

Feigenbaum persuaded himself that Goethe had been right about color. Goethe's ideas resemble a facile notion, popular among psychologists, that makes a distinction between hard physical reality and the variable subjective perception of it. The colors we perceive vary from time to time and from person to person—that much is easy to say.

And where did logic belong? To psychology or to computer science? Surely not just to philosophy.

Psychology ideally means giving soul to language and finding language for soul.