Quotes About Psychology

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

It has been proven now scientifically that, an affirmative thought is hundreds of times more powerful than a negative thought.

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there are positive and negative aspects to all of these.

It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion.

Positive disintegration is the sublimation of suffering

The emotional brain existed long before the rational brain.

Never strike out of anger if at all possible, this will give your enemy the advantage and strengthen his resolve and psyche

A man is but his state of mind.

The deepest and darkest dungeons that we are ever flung into are the dungeons of the mind

Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.

The body manifests what the mind harbors.

Most of the time we think we're sick it's all in the mind.

Most human behavior is controlled by images. Image is a factor in how people look at themselves and what they use to reflect themselves. The control of images is a major factor in world power.

the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.

I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.

Whenever people use a word so often that they abbreviate it, it is clearly central to their moral and emotional vocabulary.

the only thing necessary to trigger tribal behaviour in humans is the creation of two completely arbitrary groups. Leave them alone in a room and watch it all begin:

The Narcissism Epidemic, Twenge and Campbell

is a 'story processor', writes the psychologist Professor Jonathan Haidt, 'not a logic processor'.

Everyone who's psychologically normal thinks they're the hero.

Krankzinnigheid is iets wat alleen door zijn zeldzaamheid wordt bepaald. Als van honderd mensen er vijf en negentig krankzinnig zijn, dan zijn niet zij krankzinnig, maar de vijf, die het niet zijn