Quotes About Psychology

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

Theatre is not supposed to represent psychology but passions, which is totally different. Its role is to represent the soul's different emotional states, and those of the mind, the world history.

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.

Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?

I loved psychology and I loved history.

Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational" explanations... "and it is on these that history is built.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

The darker, more complex and emotional the part is, the easier it is for me. But I don't take any of that stuff home with me at the end of the day.

I don't take characters home with me.

Freud was not entirely honest with himself when he said, "Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise".

Hope is the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.

To be human means to feel inferior.

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.

Freud also said we choose our own neuroses. Capitalism is the neurosis of humanity.

Don't let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.

My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.