Quotes About Psychology

Dear Sigmund, Multiple Personality Disorder is a much discussed topic in my one bedroom bedsit."Signed....Thomas, Jane, Ralf, Tom, Toomey and Spot

The American educational psychologist Patricia Alexander has expressed the view that fear paralyses and curiosity empowers. Accordingly, she reasons, we should always be more interested than afraid.

Do you know, by the way, that German is the only language in the world that has a word for 'pleasure derived from the misfortune of others'? Schadenfreude.

Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling.

Love is a natural feeling, hatred is an acquired one.

Craziness is just a varying degree of sanity.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or other art forms.

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

I think politics come out of psychology.

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

I think politics and personal psychology and interrelationships - these things are interrelated to me and overlap.

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life.

I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.

Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.

Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.

My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension.