Quotes About Psychology

In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going through with it, and it had the added benefit of not entailing risk.

If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want to understand your evolving relationship, read psychology. But if you have just ended a relationship and would like to believe you are better off without love, read philosophy.

The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the intuitive dog. A dog's tail wags to communicate. You can't make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can't change people's minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor

Me encuentro entre el 95 por ciento de propietarios varones de perros que les habla (aunque no en el 87 por ciento que cree que su perro le contesta).

The character damage of a trauma survivor can be understood as a reflection both of his or her radical aloneness and of the continued presence of the perpetrator in the victim's inner life.

Todas nuestras neurosis empiezan cuando tratamos de ser lo que no somos.

desde el punto de vista psicológico, es imposible que yo pueda querer a alguien sin quererme a mí.

Bradshaw llama a este recuerdo de la herida primigenia "el niño herido". Es este niño herido que llevamos dentro el que nos hace actuar así.

The critics often invent authors; they select two dissimilar works - the Tao Te Ching and the 1001 Nights, say - attribute them to the same writer and then determine most scrupulously the psychology of this interesting homme de lettres...

The curious thing about The Ring and the Book, to which I will now return, is that although each character recounts the same events, and although there is no difference in what they tell, there is a fundamental difference, which belongs to the realm of human psychology, the fact that each of us believes we are justified. For example, the count admits he is a murderer, but the word "murderer" is too general. We know this from reading other books.

La belleza es ese misterio hermoso que no descifran ni la psicología ni la retórica.

The paranoic is logical. Indeed, he is strikingly meticulously logical.

T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.

Suicide] is the essence of self-portraiture.

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

Mythology, in other words, is psychology misread as biography, history, and cosmology.

When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy.

the single hero story that seemed to be repeating itself everywhere — in the oldest Sumerian epics, in folktales from the Pacific Islands and the Siberian forests and the African savannah, in the lives of great religious heroes like Gautama ?akyam?ni and Jesus, in the case notes of psychiatric patients

Apparently the most permanent of the dispositions of the human psyche are those that derive from the fact that, of all animals, we remain the longest at the mother breast.

Atonement (at-one-ment) consists in no more than the abandonment of that self-generated double monster — the dragon thought to be God (superego)* and the dragon thought to be Sin (repressed id). But this requires an abandonment of the attachment to ego itself; and that is what is difficult.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane. Hitler was the archetype of the abstemious man.

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else.