Quotes about Psychology

I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.

The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.

Man is the only animal who blushes...or needs to.

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.

Where there is much pride or much vanity, there will also be much revengefulness. - On Psychology

No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman.

Our subjective sense of the direction of time, the psychological arrow of time, is therefore determined within our brain by the thermodynamic arrow of time. Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can't have a safer bet than that!

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

In our society, as people pass out of young adulthood, they tend to relate to themselves more in terms of what they are no longer than what they are now, and that's psychologically low-grade devastating.

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.