Quotes About Psychology

The fear of Hell is a very powerful motivation.

Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid rejection

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

Fear can be used to get into your attention. Any way a person can get you to think of them, allows them to drain you.

Fear which has been embedded in your mind since you were a tot doesn't go away easily - it's conditioned in. And because we have fear, we fail to fulfill and realize our potential as human beings.

The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

Fear is an effective factor in altering behavior.

Humor acts to relieve fear.

The feelings of guilt takes away self-confidence, reduces self-esteem welcomes fear, confusion, disappointment, depression etc.

Fear is intense self-awareness.

The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

The things people joke about most are usually those which irritate them, but which they do not want to seem to be irritated by; there is perhaps, too, an unspoken hope of further advantage: that the person we are speaking to, hearing us admit something jokingly, will believe that it is not true.

Marcel's attempts to interpret Albertine are constantly deflected—by Aimé's unreliable letters, by Albertine's misinterpreted telegrams, by Marcel's failure to recognize Gilberte at the Guermantes. All of these misreadings could be seen as part of a general comedy or tragedy of social misunderstanding and psychological failure to grasp the nature of other people, as well as one's own self.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

every social class has its own pathology...

It is true that the two men were not acquainted and had little or nothing in common, but psychological laws, like physical laws, have a more or less general relevance. And if the appropriate conditions are the same, the same expression lights up the eyes of different human animals, just as the same morning sky lights up places that are remote from one another and have no connection.

O]ur 'inferiors,' who love us...take pleasure in wounding us in our self-esteem.