Quotes About Psychology

But if you kept thinking about a fight you'd lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again.

Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices.

Italy was a surprise in my life. I went there just to make money and then go back to Israel and study psychology. The arts wasn't something I grew up with or thought I could be part of.

Bernoulli's real contribution was to coin a word. The word has been translated into English as "utility". It describes this subjective value people place on money.

On a biological level, the brain registers money as something valuable - even a dollar bill which has no intrinsic value, it's just paper.

The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.

People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother

Freud: If it's not one thing, it's your mother

Men often marry their mothers.

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this gives rise to the Oedipus complex.

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

Freedom and slavery are mental states.

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.