Quotes about Psychology

If you feel ugly you will experience shame. The two are bound together.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

It's really important for me to look good before a race. I definitely think if I feel I look good, it makes me feel more confident.

I have never met anyone who wasn't confused inside.

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.

For some of you, my quoting Jesus is the only way you will trust me; for others, it gives you more reasons to mistrust me, but I have to take both risks. If I dared to present all of these ideas simply as my ideas, or because they match modern psychology or old mythology, I would be dishonest. Jesus for me always clinches the deal, and I sometimes wonder why I did not listen to him in the first place.

Threats of hell are unfortunately more memorable to people than promises of heaven.

The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

Every time you try to block a thought out of your mind, you drive it deeper into your memory. By resisting it, you actually reinforce it.

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

The hallucinations of alcoholics provide us with an opportunity to study crowds as they appear in the minds of individuals.