Psychology Quotes

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

A primary flaw in my psychology is that I'll give people a hundred yards' worth of rope with which to hang themselves, but once they reach that hundred-yard line, I strangle them to death with it.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.

Every man is a poet at heart.

Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives.

The sight of somebody meditating needs to become commonplace.

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

Truth is a matter of PerspectiveThere will be my truth and your truth and as Universal truth doesn't exist.

It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are.

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

It is only when you meet someoneof a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your ownbeliefs really are.

Donald Trump has been called, by psychologists and clinical psychologists, over and over again, a narcissist with multiple sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies.

I think it was Lessing who once said, 'There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose'. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behaviour".

An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric.

Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the 'size' of human suffering is absolutely relative".

A myth is something that has never happened, but is happening all the time.

We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.

There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.

To leave is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.

A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.

Philosophy may be blind without science, but science can lack vision without philosophy.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire the other is to get it.

Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.

The degradation of most civilizations, contain a common thread. The 'synagogue of Satan' is behind all weaponized ignorance and hate.

Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.

They had an ugly look to one as prone to disgust and fear as the changes of a few hours had made me.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Psychology is the science of mental life

A man who doubts himself shouldn't have to try too hard for too long, not until he's seasoned.

It is that we are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.

It does not take a man to stand with the strong, it takes a man to stand with the weak and oppose the strong.

It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect.

Let’s train ourselves to not hate each other. We all come from the same consciousness in the mind.

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.

I have never been sad because my losses are my profits

Theories without data are like daydreams.

My training makes me uneasy with a happy mystery.

At night we sort the energy that by day we sense.

We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.

This book is dedicated to those who have died as a result of mind control and/or ritual abuse, and those who have lived when they would rather have died.

Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one’s authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically.

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student.