Quotes About Psychology

Fear and anger always come hand in hand. Anger is my hiding place from fear, my shield and my sword against it.

Why do you think I do it?" He shrugged. "All I can figure is that either you're nursing a deep and sadistic self-hatred or else you're insane.

I do not perceive myself to be mad. But if I were truly mad, would I be able to tell?

People are likely to do the most ridiculously illogical things for the most incomprehensible of reasons.

Sometimes it scares me how easy it is to get people to do what you want them to do, if you know something about them.

killer inside me

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded by happiness.

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference... I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

You can't be nervous and amused at the same time. They're both powerful emotions and one overrides the other. If your sense of humor kicks in, you lose your case of nerves…at least according to the professor who taught the psychology class I took in college.

Non ci sono demoni ma una serie di archetipi comuni a ogni civiltà.

You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.

the part of the brain, physiologically, that allows us to blame everything on people we do not really know is the same part of the brain that allows us to have compassion for strangers

Work and love - these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Neither woman nor man lives by work or love alone.... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.

When computers came along, I felt for the first time that I had the proper tools for the kind of theoretical work I wanted to do. So I moved over to that, and that got me into psychology.

Technology will mirror the culture and the psychology creating it. We need new psychological scaffolding to work with. Less fear and more optimism.

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

It's fun to mess with feelings.

A Taurus is an emotionally confused being. There are constant emotions warring through these creatures.

You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.

You can die from being scared, so can you die from being nervous/anxious?

Being extremely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.