Psychology Quotes
It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions.
We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.
It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.
The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious
Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.
There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.
Nothing, in all of the Universe is more delicious than to be in this physical body allowing the fullness that is you to be present in the moment.
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.
Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here that I seek the relationship between God and man.
The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.
People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.
You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.
The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?
All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.
Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.
If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention.
I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.
All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary
The healthier people are, the more they are willing to admit to their limitations and so the more open they are to the possibility of improvement.
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.
Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.
However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.
Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.
The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.
My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.
The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine
Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
Psychology motivates the quality of analysis and puts it to use. Psychology is the driver and analysis is the road map.
must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.