Psychology Quotes - Page 20

• Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

  Albert Camus

  Ideology, Humans, Contrary

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.116, Vintage

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• In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

  Jean Piaget

  Epistemology, Developmental, Absolutes

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• I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.

  Martin Seligman

  Trying, Faces, Smiley

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• Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone ... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.

  Betty Friedan

  Inspirational, Men, Self

  Betty Friedan (1998). “The Second Stage: With a New Introduction”, p.82, Harvard University Press

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• The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Vocabulary, Names, Alchemist

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• Indisputably we live in a shaped reality, an artificialism. Most people who grasp this are thinking only at a consumer-level, of the "things" they like and need and feel impelled to acquire. But our societal and political arrangements are just as much manipulations of game-pieces and rules as is any Atari or Sega product. The subliminal psychology that drives people to become addicted to games, not to be able to see over the edges of their labyrinths, is transferable to any field whatsoever.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Reality, Thinking

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• Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Mind, Definite

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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• Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Choices, Desire, Artistic

  "4D Timelock". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1928.

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• Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  People, Meditation, Mind

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• Individuality is different than isolation. Isolation is trying to do everything on your own, living life by yourself. Isolation happens when you choose not to be involved in any communities, making sure you keep a safe distance from people in your life. I’m not recommending isolation. Science, psychology, and religion all suggest long term isolation is dangerous and unhealthy.

  Stephen Lovegrove

  Distance, Live Life, Long

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• Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature.

  Stanton Peele

  Essentials, Literature, Written

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• Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.

  Albert Memmi

  Hands, Racism, Doe

  Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press

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• Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.

  Nate Berkus

  School, Kids, Design

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• A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

  Ariel Gore

  Privilege, Stuck, Rejects

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• Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

  David Chase

  Soul, Addresses, Sopranos

  David Chase, Carlo De Vito (2009). “The Sopranos: The Classic Quotes: 100 Unforgettable Bits of Wisdom&Humor From Americas Favorite Families”, Cider Mill Press

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• Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

  Norman O. Brown

  Progress, Society, Neurosis

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.18, Wesleyan University Press

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• Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

  Henry Adams

  Study, Judgment, Politician

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.163, Booklassic

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• People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street.

  James A. Baldwin

  Kids, People, Cry

  "James Baldwin Back Home" by Robert Coles, archive.nytimes.com. July 31, 1977.

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• Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Practice, Risk, Technique

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.30, Arcade Publishing

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• Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion.... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.... The sound man needs work to keep him sound, but the nervous invalid has an even greater need of work to draw him out of his isolation, and to stop the miseries of doubt and self-scrutiny, to win back self-respect and the support of fellowship.

  Richard Clarke Cabot

  Winning, Men, Self

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• After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Passion, Half, Century

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• 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.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Electrical, Units, Appliances

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• I'm going to my psychoanalyst one more year, then I'm going to Lourdes.

  Woody Allen

  Years, Lourdes

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• Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

  Bertrand Russell

  Civilization, Long, Survival

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• It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Human Nature, Pity, Psychiatrist

  Observer 9 December (1934)

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