Quotes About Psychology

it is possible to argue that some people are violent and mentally ill, but it is no longer defensible to argue that people are violent because they are mentally ill.

If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

For some of you, my quoting Jesus is the only way you will trust me; for others, it gives you more reasons to mistrust me, but I have to take both risks. If I dared to present all of these ideas simply as my ideas, or because they match modern psychology or old mythology, I would be dishonest. Jesus for me always clinches the deal, and I sometimes wonder why I did not listen to him in the first place.

People who have never been in this downtrodden, impoverished situation can be very unsympathetic because they don't realize what's happening inside. From their secure position—usually in the middle or upper classes—it's easy to call the poor lazy or unmotivated. Such people do not understand the psychological dimension of poverty. The poor have little chance of changing their state without some help from outside.

The shadow is the place we put all the suppressed and repressed parts of our lives. + Eventually, in every life, the suppressed and repressed parts of our selves will revolt. + The challenge is to acknowledge and honor the shadow but not be tyrannized by it.

Jung believed that humans produce in art the inner images the soul needs in order to see itself and to allow its own transformation.

God takes away the shame we have by giving us back to ourselves—by giving us God! You don't get any better than that. Human love does the same thing. When someone else loves you, they give you not just themselves, but for some reason they give you back your own self, but now a truer and better self. This dance between the Lover and the beloved is the psychology of the whole Bible, which we will see poetically described in the wonderful single book, the Song of Songs.

As always, to Sully, the deepest of life's mysteries were the mysteries of his own behavior.

Like I said, what makes people tick isn't neccessarily what makes them good. Fast-forward

La mente umana segue il sentiero archetipico numinoso che parte dal suo interno.

Astrology," he stated, "represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

materialism takes root in early childhood, and is driven mainly by low self-esteem.

The message is clear – those who do not feel in control of their lives are less successful, and less psychologically and physically healthy, than those who do feel in control.

to see was not to control, that self-understanding was far short of self-mastery. He was afraid of himself.

There are men who need to defile themselves in order to get on with their lives.

He was a psychologist, and degrees in psychology, I find, often conceal deviant tendencies.

Such is human memory... you forget the truth and believe what makes you feel better.

dealing with any man means dealing with multiple personalities.

Judging from her wide eyes, I guessed the answer was, No, and does hallucinations run in the family?

The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

Every time you try to block a thought out of your mind, you drive it deeper into your memory. By resisting it, you actually reinforce it.

other. I managed to read one that said. 'What's a superego?' Written down, it looked very odd, like a sauce for spaghetti or a musical tempo mark – spiritoso, sforzando, superego. My headache was growing worse. I wished I had an Anadin (a rather poetic cry of pain). I was too tired to concentrate.

While obsession with one's personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.

Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.