Human Psyche Quotes

• Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

  Martha Beck

  Eye, Oxygen, Feelings

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• Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Levels, Conscious

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.128, Psychology Press

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• If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

  Martha Beck

  Lonely, Being Alone, Oxygen

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• The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.

  Stanislav Grof

  Individual, Existence, Shows

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• Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.

  Carl Jung

  Farewell, Heart, Psychology

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• The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

  Stanislav Grof

  Play, Important, Connections

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• going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human psyche.

  Barbara Hurd

  Nature, Adventure, Labyrinth

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• To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Planets, Collectives, Humans

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.

  Cesar Pelli

  Running, Badass, Bad Ass

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• I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

  Jeffrey Combs

  Thinking, Wings, Humans

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• How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton; more than this, we many even try to predict the mechanisms or "dynamisms" of the human psyche as well. But man is more than psyche.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Trying, Machines

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.101, Beacon Press

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• It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Reflection, Glasses, Mankind

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• The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Yield, May

  "Collected Poems". Book by Herbert Read, 1926.

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• The most powerful force in the human psyche is people's need for their words and actions to stay consistent with their IDENTITY - how we define ourselves.

  Tony Robbins

  Powerful, People, Inner Strength

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• I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Believe, Chains, Spite

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Jan 20, 2012

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• Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ego, Gains, Feminine

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.101, Penguin

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• Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis. Unlike 'mad' scientists, horror-movies madmen are not visionary obsessives, glorifying in scientific reason as they single-mindedly purse their researches. They are, rather, victims of overpowering impulses that well up from within; monsters brought forth by the sleep of reason, not by its attractions.

  Andrew Tudor

  Sleep, Psychosis, Mad

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• The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Abrahamic religion gives strong sanction to both-and mixes explosively with both. Only the willfully blind could fail to implicate the divisive force of religion in most, if not all, of the violent enmities in the world today.

  Richard Dawkins

  Strong, Two, Giving

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• Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another

  Jane Urquhart

  Racism, Desire, And Love

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• Actors are basically drag queens. People will tell you they act because they want to heal mankind or, you know, explore the nature of the human psyche. Yes, maybe. But basically we just want to put on a frock and dance.

  Colin Firth

  Queens, People, Actors

  "Firth: 'All Actors Are Drag Queens'" by wenn.com, July 21, 2008.

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• LSD was not a pharmacological agent generating exotic experiences by its interaction with the neurophysiological processes in the brain. This remarkable substance was clearly an unspecific catalyst of the deep dynamics of the human psyche. The experiences induced by it were not neurochemical artifacts, symptoms of a toxic psychosis as mainstream psychiatrists called it, but genuine manifestations of the human psyche itself.

  Stanislav Grof

  Psychosis, Brain, Substance

  Stanislav Grof (2009). “When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-Ordinary Realities, Read How You Want Edition”, p.58, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of the recesses of the human psyche. By masterful juxtaposition of evocative images, poetry, and selected quotes from scholars, Flesh and Blood seems to engage both the right and left hemispheres in an unprecedented dialogue. The result is a multi-dimensional, almost holographic picture of the primordial foundations of the human mind.

  Stanislav Grof

  Book, Unique, Blood

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• Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a geographical expedition than a military campaign. .... a Greek army had reached what they regarded as the end of the earth. They had pitted themselves against the ultimate as bravely as the yogins had struggled to break through the limits of the human psyche. Where mystics had conquered interior space, Alexander explored the farthest reaches of the physical world. .... like many of the axial sages, he was constantly 'straining after more'.

  Karen Armstrong

  Military, Army, Years

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• My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

  Dana Snyder

  Humanity, Interest, Humans

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• The Witch can gaze clearly into the dark hidden corners of the human psyche just as the full moon can light up the darkness of night.

  Raven Grimassi

  Dark, Moon, Night

  Raven Grimassi (2003). “Spirit of the Witch: Religion & Spirituality in Contemporary Witchcraft”, p.8, Llewellyn Worldwide

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