Quotes About Psychology

synaesthesia—the condition where two or more senses are connected, for example when numbers are seen in colour and every series of numbers forms an image in the mind.

Oamenii vor s? fie accepta?i, s? fie competen?i ?i ajung s? fac? prostii inimaginabile din cauza asta.

For those who are suffering from chronic pain, there is a direct link between the level of pain and negative thinking.

Dehumanization isn't a way of talking. It's a way of thinking—a way of thinking that, sadly, comes all too easily to us. Dehumanization is a scourge, and has been so for millennia. It acts as a psychological lubricant, dissolving our inhibitions and inflaming our destructive passions. As such, it empowers us to perform acts that would, under other circumstances, be unthinkable.

Social psychologists confirm that we are likely to perceive people outside our own community as more alike than those within it. We perceive members of our own group as individuals, but see other groups as more or less homogenous (psychologists call this the "outgroup homogeneity bias").

Self-deception is an indispensable element of war, and that despite the fact that wars are calculated and planned, there is a sense in which human beings do not know what they are doing when they cut one another down on the battlefield.

Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.

Using one's own sexual mind as an infallible guide for inferring the sexual minds of others is an error.

Differences in desirability create havoc in at least two fundamental ways. The first centers around misperceptions. A man who is a 6 but thinks he's an 8 will be utterly irritated when the woman who's an 8 whom he's trying to chat up rejects his advances. Although women and men both can err in their self-perceived mate value, research shows that men are more likely than women to be overconfident in a variety of domains

Humans are evolutionarily designed to be paranoid, and they believe in God because they are paranoid.

God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

No man hates God without first hating himself.

We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.

The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind.

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!

People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

The gods have become our diseases.

For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in the first place.

By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best comparable with a God

Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we've got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead." "He's not dead; just very tired.

Thank God I'm not a Jungian.