Quotes about Psychology

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light," he said, "but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

Modern people…are ignorant of what they really are. We have simply forgotten what a human being really is, so we have men like Nietzsche and Freud and Adler, who tell us what we are, quite mercilessly. We have to discover our shadow. Otherwise we are driven into a world war in order to see what beasts we are.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Success is the result of psychologically preparing for it, prior to achieving it!

What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

Billie offers to dig the garbage pit but does so by digging a neat tiny coffinshaped grave instead of just a garbage hole—Even Dave Wain blinks to see it—It's exactly the size fit for putting a little dead Elliott in it, Dave is thinking the same thing I am I can tell by a glance he gives me—We've all read Freud sufficiently to understand something there

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

Somewhere deep within the tormented man there is a tormented child who feels doomed to torment others!

Most people have no reason to know how memory can turn rogue and feral, becoming a force of its own and one to be reckoned with.

This is one of the greatest breakthroughs in success psychology. You develop the courage you desire by disciplining yourself repeatedly to do the thing you fear until that fear eventually disappears—and it will.

This is the basic principle that underlies most religion, psychology, philosophy, and metaphysics. This law says, "Whatever you believe, with conviction, becomes your reality.

that is the psychology of a murderer who's committed the perfect crime and then confesses because he can't bear the idea that nobody knows it's a perfect crime.