Quotes About Psychology

Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world...

The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.

Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).

...this two-way hatred. I don't understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?

The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Remember, color is not just color, but mood, temperature and structure.

Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

When desire dies, fear is born.

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

Personality, too, is destiny.

The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.

The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

We control the content of our dreams.

In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.