Psychology Quotes - Page 4

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.

The person following is never in control, which she knows full well and which is exactly why she does it.

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

Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends – sorry, I meant characters.

Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.

In general, people are not drawn to perfection in others. People are drawn to shared interests, shared problems, and an individual's life energy.

Humans connect with humans. Hiding one's humanity and trying to project an image of perfection makes a person vague, slippery, lifeless, and uninteresting.

All humans are alike and all humans are equal. It is just the perception of the eye that sees any different.

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

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way - it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

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.

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend
is statism.
Philosophically, the goal is the
obliteration of reason;
psychologically, it is the
erosion of ambition.