Psychology Quotes - Page 25

• When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology.

  Eamon

  Football, Play, Very Good

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• Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood and throughout life. We require approval from those we respect. The kinship it creates lifts us to their level, a process referred to in self-psychology as transmuting internalization. Approval is a necessary component of self-esteem. It becomes a problem only when we give up our true self to find it. Then approval-seeking works against us.

  David Richo

  Giving Up, Self Esteem, Acceptance

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• The most exciting part of finding out who we are is discovering our own uniqueness, who we are outside the box, beyond the categories in a Psychology 101 textbook. In our inimitable singularity, there is an infinite range of possibility that cannot be tied to any one description of what it means to be human or healthy.

  David Richo

  Mean, Healthy, Textbooks

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• The pseudoscience of astrology has no place in magick. Astrology has already died twice: once with the classical gods, and a second time after the Enlightenment. The complete failure of contemporary psychology to create anything other than a vocabulary of intellectual rubbish has encouraged astrology to resurface.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Vocabulary, Astrology, Intellectual

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick: Revised Edition". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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• Nietzsche himself was a great moralist; his writings abound with value judgments about individuals, character types, modes of thinking, and national traits. It is as if he develops immoralist psychology in order to tame his own nature, to keep his own greatest vice in check.

  John Carroll

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.31, Taylor & Francis

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• Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational" explanations... "and it is on these that history is built.

  Lloyd deMause

  Accepting, Mystical, Rational

  Lloyd DeMause (1975). “The New Psychohistory”, New York : Psychohistory Press

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• A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is studied as something religious. To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics, art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it - the element of the sacred.

  Mircea Eliade

  Religious, Art, Mean

  "Patterns in Comparative Religion". Book by Mircea Eliade, p. xiii, 1963.

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• Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology I mean, roughly, the view that many fundamentally different kinds of psychological mechanisms must be postulated in order to explain the facts of mental life. Faculty psychology takes seriously the apparent heterogeneity of the mental and is impressed by such prima facie differences as between, say, sensation and perception, volition and cognition, learning and remembering, or language and thought.

  Jerry Fodor

  Mean, Differences, Views

  "Modularity of Mind". Book by Jerry Fodor, 1983.

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• In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequently with numerous faculty and student colleagues at Carnegie-Mellon University, they have made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing.

  Allen Newell

  Years, Effort, Twenties

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• The insight at the root of artificial intelligence was that these "bits" (manipulated by computers) could just as well stand as symbols for concepts that the machine would combine by the strict rules of logic or the looser associations of psychology.

  Daniel Crevier

  Roots, Machines, Association

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• Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.

  George Trumbull Ladd

  Mind, Limits, Determined

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• Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of goods. Science in all its branches - physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology - is the servant and upholder of this system

  Charles A. Beard

  Civilization, Directors, Branches

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• Fortunately, there are old terrors and powers that religion no longer can exercise so effectively as it did only a few score years ago. But the atmosphere and the attitude of bigotry remain. If religion cannot ordinarily invoke the armed force of law to punish heretics, it still plays upon the psychology of fear and predominantly its influence is to frighten men and distort their views and poison every process of their reasoning.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Attitude, Exercise, Men

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• People are always invoking evolutionary psychology for everything. "Why do men hang around asking women out? Oh, to improve their reproductive success," every damn thing - religion, art - it can all be explained by evolutionary psychology. But in our hearts we know that evolutionary psychology is only sort of accurate, because it really doesn't capture what's most interesting about our lives.

  D. T. Max

  Art, Men, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

  Ruth Rendell

  Human Nature, Trouble, Accounts

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• Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.

  Carol Tavris

  Book, Research, Dull

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• funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other.

  Katha Pollitt

  Hate, Believe, Garden

  Katha Pollitt (1995). “Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism”, Vintage

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• exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Twenties, Might, Firsts

  Phyllis Chesler (2013). “An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir”, p.144, St. Martin's Press

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• psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

  Jean Baker Miller

  Growth, Facts, Psychological

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• As an advice columnist, I spend a lot of time reading through psychology journals to ensure that I give the most up-to-date advice.

  Amy Dickinson

  Reading, Giving, Advice

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think the works of W.D. Gann and Robert Prechter have inspired me more than anyone else. It was from their writings that I discovered cycles, patterns, and psychology dominate the market, and that the news breaks with the cycles, not the other way around.

  Jeff Cooper

  Writing, Thinking, News

  Source: blog.traderslibrary.com

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• I would love to see what's going to happen with science fiction with peoples' heads, because we still have people running around in the year 2050 or 2100 or 2200 and they have incredible technology and you see the effects: laser beams and rays and beaming down and beaming up. Incredible technical things happening, but everybody is still running around jealous, fighting, whacking, cheating. There's got to be something going on! Some kind of change. I'd like to see something starting to happen in that area, with the psychology of the human being and how that changed.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Running, Cheating, Jealous

  Source: www.mrmovietimes.com

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• There are a lot of guys who think that if they show weakness or vulnerability they're not sexy anymore or attractive. In my opinion, you can't be too open or too gentle or kind or sensitive. If you really want to work on a relationship and have one that lasts, you have to be willing to go deep into human psychology and emotion. If you don't want to go there, you can be a serial dater, and I guess that's okay, but if you want a relationship with a woman, you have to be introspective and look at yourself and your family and where you've been and where you're going.

  Megan Fox

  Sexy, Thinking, Guy

  "What Megan Fox Looks for in a Man (and Turtle)". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. August 8, 2014.

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• A lot of the things that involve power on the highest levels sometimes involve the darker side of human psychology. People can be very passive aggressive or they can be aggressive and they can conceal their intentions. There's this world that exists that nobody writes about or describes it's like a dirty little secret or taboo.

  Robert Greene

  Dirty, Writing, People

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• I think that an anthill is better than a nest ... that in the anthill among a hundred thousand or a million you are freer than in a nest, where all sit around and look at one another, waiting until scientists finally discover ways to make us mind readers. ... the psychology of the nest is loathsome to me, and I always sympathize with one who flees his nest, even if he flees into an anthill, where it may be crowded but one can find solitude - that most natural, most worthy state of man, that precious and intense state of being conscious of the world and of oneself.

  Nina Berberova

  Thinking, Men, Waiting

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