Psychology Quotes - Page 26

• It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do.

  Anne Fadiman

  Old Things, Waiting, Example

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• Sex is ... scratching an itch Everything else is something we project on a very simple act. It's the psychology, not the biology, that's complicated.

  Joy Browne

  Sex, Simple, Complicated

  Joy Browne (2011). “Dating For Dummies”, p.260, John Wiley & Sons

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• The fields of clinical psychology and psychiatry exist specifically to help the emotionally unstable become more stable and lead happier, healthier lives. Unlike in the eras of Vincent Van Gogh and Abraham Lincoln, there is now professional help available for those who suffer from emotional illness. Treatment may require therapy or even medication, but hope is now available every single day in practically every city in the civilized world.

  David J. Lieberman

  Emotional, Cities, Suffering

  David J. Lieberman (2010). “Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not: The Proven System to Quickly Assess Anyone's Emotional Stability”, p.161, David Lieberman

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• What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

  Martin Freeman

  Nails, Stuff, Humans

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but its to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.

  Imogen Poots

  Character, Thinking, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I used to be and I still am into psychology. I would like to be able to pursue something like that, but I don't know. The older I've gotten, the more endearing this business has become and I can't really imagine leaving it

  Lindsey Shaw

  Leaving, Able, Imagine

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• The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.

  Boris Sidis

  Psycho, Hypothesis, Physiological

  Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”

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• The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.

  Boris Sidis

  World, Facts, Study

  Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”

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• Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.

  Boris Sidis

  Psychics, Process, Physiological

  Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”

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• Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.

  Boris Sidis

  Psychics, Unity, Principles

  Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”

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• We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition of a particular doctrine, has expressed itself atheistically. By contrast, theology is not merely under suspicion of talking soullessly about God. Both theology and psychology, in striving for human health, need one another like the right and the left hand.

  Eugen Drewermann

  Struggle, Hands, Talking

  Speech at a conference of therapists in Basel, Switzerland, May 21, 1977.

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• I went to a public high school with a magnet program for law and psychology. But right before my junior year, I decided that I wanted to leave and become an actress, so I graduated early and moved out to L.A.

  Ashley Greene

  School, Years, Law

  Interview with Michael Sheen, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Government, People, Habit

  Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

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• A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.

  Sigmund Freud

  Horse, Passion, Men

  Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Fliess (1957). “The Origins of Psychoanalysis: Letters, Drafts and Notes to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1902”

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• Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.

  Samuel Richardson

  Brother, Men, Imagination

  Samuel Richardson, Sir Richard Phillips (1804). “The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, Author of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Selected from the Original Manuscripts, Bequeathed by Him to His Family, to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Account of that Author, and Observations on His Writings”, p.263

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• Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses. Even if it thoroughly analyzes itself, psychology (and this is one of the dubious aspects of psychoanalysis) can, to be sure, recognize its flawed native characteristics, but it cannot eliminate them. Understanding (them) is not the same as overcoming (them) and, again and again, we see the wisest of human beings helpless in the fact of their small follies which everyone else observes with a smile.

  Stefan Zweig

  Understanding, Intellectual, Facts

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• At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.

  I. King Jordan

  College, Thinking, Issues

  "Gallaudet University Interview With Former President I. King Jordan". Interview with Ken Adelman, www.washingtonian.com. March 1, 2006.

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• Yearning is the word that best describes a common psychological state shared by many of us, cutting across boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexual practice.

  Bell Hooks

  Cutting, Race, Practice

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.44, Routledge

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• Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.

  James Hillman

  Food, Fundamentals, Depth

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• Physiology, in its analysis of the physiological functions of the sense organs, must use the results of subjective observation of sensations; and psychology, in its turn, needs to know the physiological aspects of sensory function, in order rightly to appreciate the psychological.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Order, Appreciate, Needs

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1904). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• Some have said that the thesis [of indeterminacy] is a consequence of my behaviorism. Some have said that it is a reductio ad absurdum of my behaviorism. I disagree with this second point, but I agree with the first. I hold further that the behaviorism approach is mandatory. In psychology one may or may not be a behaviorist, but in linguistics one has no choice.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Choices, May, Firsts

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Douglas B. Quine (2008). “Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist: And Other Essays”, p.341, Harvard University Press

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• Unlike Freud, Jung did not believe that a dream is a mask for a meaning already known but deceitfully withheld from the consciousmind. In his view, dreams were communication, ideas expressed not always straightforwardly, but in the best way possible within the limits of the medium. Dreaming, in Jung's psychology, is a constructive process.

  Jeremy Campbell

  Dream, Believe, Communication

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• The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine.

  Sherry Turkle

  Self, Ideas, Mind

  Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.282, MIT Press

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• One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine is becoming a central cultural preoccupation. It is becoming for us what sex was to the Victorians--threat and obsession, taboo and fascination.

  Sherry Turkle

  Sex, Taken, Long

  Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.285, MIT Press

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• Central to Jungian psychology is the concept of "individuation," the process whereby a person discovers and evolves his Self, as opposed to his ego. The ego is a persona, a mask created and demanded by everyday social interaction, and, as such, it constitutes the center of our conscious life, our understanding of ourselves through the eyes of others. The Self, on the other hand, is our true center, our awareness of ourselves without outside interference, and it is developed by bringing the conscious and unconscious parts of our minds into harmony.

  Morris Berman

  Eye, Hands, Self

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