Quotes About Psychology

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

Self help books are pointless. Here's something for you... Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are from Uranus.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.

Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

You can find inspiration for man's behaviour wherever you look.

Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him.

'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon.

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight or flight thing.

There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'

Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

I definitely don't know why men are turned-on by lesbianism.

Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?

Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad.

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.