Philosophy Quotes - Page 18

When creativity is seen as more important than facts, we will find ourselves in a world where problems are solved more often than spoken of.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

The American educational psychologist Patricia Alexander has expressed the view that fear paralyses and curiosity empowers. Accordingly, she reasons, we should always be more interested than afraid.

The expression of preferences is the essence of love.

Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

The true self is that which is in touch with reality.
The false self is the aspects of your personality that are adapted to threats and no longer consciously recognizes either the adaptation or the threat.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

Maslow's five values are the values for which people live when they have nothing to live for. Nothing has seized them, nothing has caught them, nothing has driven them spiritually mad and made them worth talking to.

We are haunted houses of history.
Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive.

There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.

To a certain degree,
We all seek, life’s purpose and meaning,
love, peace and joy,
and knowledge, wealth and power…

Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings - that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

most psychologists/philosophers we've learned about have experienced severe depressions, attempted suicide, were considered 'freaks' or 'insane' by their peers, locked themselves in their rooms, felt socially isolated, were either celibate or extremely promiscuous, and rarely found 'love

Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.

Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.