Quotes About Psychology

Cuando no se tiene un buen amante, es necesario tener un buen psicoanalista

Nunca he pretendido que una sola idea explicara la diversidad del mundo ni un Dios fuera más cierto que numerosos dioses Nunca he pretendido que la psicología excluyera a la biología, ni que tener un sexo excluyera al otro.

Psychoanalysis is a remedy for the illness of which it is itself the cause'

Everyone's always on the hunt for a mirror. It's basic psychology. You want to see yourself reflected in others. Others—your sister, your parents—they want to look at you and see themselves. They want you to be a flattering reflection of them—and vice-versa. It's normal. I suppose it's really normal if you're a twin. But being somebody else's mirror? That is not your job." Nora

Everyone's always on the hunt for a mirror. It's basic psychology. You want to see yourself reflected in others.

If you want to predict a person's behavior, identify his or her incentives. Leo

Sometimes the dreams clung to Bea all day, leaving her unsettled and jittery, gloomy. Like today.

with her hormones and possibly even with

Social scientists and psychologists are conducting research studies that clearly show that when we behave and act as if we are happy, confident, healthy or in love, we become happy, confident, healthy and in love.

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

There are about forty-nine masochists to one sadist.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.

Hate is the consequence of fear. We fear something before we hate it. A child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noises.

Monsters from the Id!

All the crushing might of an armed state is hurled against any man who refuses to accept the New Faith. At the same time, Stalinism attacks him from within, saying his opposition is caused by his "class consciousness", just as psychoanalysts accuse their foes of wanting to preserve their complexes.

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If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology.

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.

We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

There are only two types of people in this world; people who hate clowns, and clowns.

My head cleared enough to realize she was talking to me slowly as if I was an unbalanced, crazy person, which was smart because I was an unbalanced, crazy person.

Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.

The mental aspect of kicking is the difficult part. Physically, we still have to be in shape and perform on the field, but the thing that separates the ones who make it versus the ones who don't is definitely the mental side.