Quotes About Psychology

I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.

MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you

Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.

I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution.

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?'... Today the question that is the yeast in the social dough is, 'What do men want?

To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he is privy to information regarding that secret; hence the power of priests and psychics.

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

The bulk of the totalitarian-minded in the democratic societies are men and women who are attracted to this destructive way of life for inner emotional reasons unknown to themselves.

To ensure marital bliss, a man needs to be 1.09 times taller than his partner.

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man

Some people have an inner child that speaks to them. I have an inner old man who just yells random [stuff] at me all day.

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

But men and women, getting along, it's a joke. We have completely different brains, it's a completely different thing.

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.

Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.