Psychology Quotes - Page 3

The quest of the alchemists to turn lead into gold is a metaphor for our attempts to turn the base metal of ourselves, that person hooked on consumerism, filled with angst and ambition, into the gold of what we can be and really are.

The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.

Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves.

I have heard that we are spirits having a human experience. Perhaps those of us who have no conscience are dark spirits having a human experience.

A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. So, keep love in your heart if not your best friend today will turn to your worst enemy tomorrow.

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.
A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.

Excuses are a promise of repetition.

What we do not confront, we inhabit.
What we do not reject, we accept.
What we do not fight, we become.

We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".

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.

…if you cannot hate you cannot love. If you cannot bite you can not kiss. If you cannot curse you cannot bless. Who cannot be a good hater will be a poor lover.

The fear to love reaches sometimes the depth of a panic, resembles sometimes the fear to die.

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.