Quotes About Psychology

Feminine psychology is admittedly odd, sir. The poet Pope... Never mind about the poet Pope, Jeeves. No, sir. There are times when one wants to hear all about the poet Pope and times when one doesn't. Very true, sir.

This whole business of jacking up the soul is one that varies according to what Jeeves calls the psychology of the individual, some being all for it, others not. You take me, for instance. I don't say I've got much of a soul, but, such as it is, I'm perfectly satisfied with the little chap. I don't want people fooling about with it. 'Leave it alone,' I say. 'Don't touch it. I like it the way it is.

The cheers of the multitude frequently act like a powerful drug upon young gentlemen with inferiority complexes.

I didn't have a motive. I didn't to it. You did. What are you writing? Motive - Don't know. What do you mean Don't know ? I tell you I hadn't got one. Put None. You must have one. If you kill people without one, you're mad.

If religion allays anxiety, it cures only a small part of the disease it creates.

If people feel a conflict between their inclinations and a norm that is followed by everybody else, it is a conflict within their heads.

People may have finely tuned coalitional capacities, but they do not necessarily have access to how these work. The cues that make some people appear reliable and others less so are computed in ways that often escape conscious attention.

Having a normal human brain does not imply that you have religion. All it implies is that you can acquire it, which is very different.

The proper place to start, in order to understand the various things called religion, is in the human capacity to entertain supernatural fantasy. This vast domain of cognition includes daydreaming, fiction, myth, dreams, all produced by what classical psychology would have called the faculty of imagination.

Ethnic violence is not an uncontrolled outburst of rage. The fact that it takes such predictable forms means that some common processes are shaping these violent interactions, and that participants have psychological capacities and preferences that make it possible for them to engage in these acts in a coordinated manner.

Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to make a scrupulous inventory of one's psyche, considering each aspect in detail. No matter: we have to say 'fine' out of politeness and civility and change the subject, or else ruminate the question during our whole lives and reserve our reply for afterward.

Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

Is she crazy?" "No," he said simply. "But sometimes her sanity is terrifying.

I have a definite psychosis in being with people. I cannot bear it very long.

Patricia Highsmith

Given the same circumstances, I could break you down and make you kill someone. It might take different methods from the ones Bruno used on me, but it could be done. What else do you think keeps the totalitarian states going?

Her insan cinayet iÅŸleyebilir. Durumlara baÄŸl?, yap?yla hiç ilgisi yok. KiÅŸi s?n?ra kadar gelir bazen-barda?? ta??ran damlada, tamam. Kim olursa olsun. Ninen bile iÅŸler. Bilmez miyim?

Polisiye romanlar iyidir. Her çeÅŸit insan?n cinayet iÅŸleyebileceÄŸini kan?tlarlar.

Ser incapaz de amar puede convertirse en una enfermedad.

Ser incapaz de amar puede convertirse en una enfermedad, ¿no crees?

Why I love you Patricia Highsmith, will forever remain a Freudian enigma.

When a person says "No" and really means it, he or she is doing far more than saying a word of two letters. The entire organism—glandular, nervous, muscular—gathers itself together into a condition of rejection.

an animal rewarded for good behavior will learn much more rapidly and retain what it learns far more effectively than an animal punished for bad behavior.