Quotes About Psychology

The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual.

I'm afraid I don't really have a clear understanding of the psychology of the powerful- particularly the absolutely invincible variety, which I've never met or known to exist. I'm a story writer with such feeble imaginative powers that unless I myself have experienced something, I can't write one line- I can't write a word- about it.

A great way to persuade people is by making them feel like they're missing out, because people are much more likely to participate in something if they feel like they're the only ones not doing it.

Feeding yourself lies or half-truths will lead to the forming of a reality that doesn't actually exist past the confines of your psyche.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are.

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women… merely adored.

My strong advice to you is to soak, soak, soak in philosophy and psychology, until you know more of these subjects than ever you need consciously to think. It is ignorance of these subjects on the part of ministers and workers that has brought our evangelical theology to such a sorry plight. . . . The man who reads only the Bible does not, as a rule, know it or human life.

It is a bizarre, but nevertheless psychologically exact, fact that the physics of the Greeks — being statics and not dynamics — neither knew the use nor felt the absence of the time-element, whereas we on the other hand work in thousandths of a second.

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

incapacity to commit oneself to any value system beyond one supplying self-serving needs usually indicates severe narcissistic pathology. The

Holding or containing has cognitive and affective components and includes a basic attitude of concern for oneself and the patient and a psychological openness to the unknown in others as well as in oneself.

Bion (1961), Turquet (1975) and Anzieu (1984) have described the regression that occurs when group processes take over. Impressive

superego also makes a crucial contribution to the analyst's identity. Superimposed

Narcissistic deterioration

diminished creative thinking and

In the psychical sphere there are no facts, but only interpretations of them.

Neurosis is the result of willing the spontaneous.

In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his psychological activities one must be able to reproduce them in oneself. To understand a man one must have his nature in oneself.

Memory, then, is a necessary part of the logical faculty. … The proposition A = A must have a psychological relation to time, otherwise it would be At1 = At2.

Si dice che tirino più due tette di un paio di buoi, ma la vera arma segreta di una donna, per prendere all'amo un uomo, è dimostrare di provare una certa ammirazione per lui. Per mia fortuna conosco il trucco e quindi mi concentro sulle tette.

Remember that more than 60 percent of what we buy wasn't on our list. And

or what has been termed the "decompression zone," as among our most meaningful and useful work. It