Quotes about Psychology

Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Even if love were considered a mental illness, that would not prevent it from being a pleasant one.

As a bowler our job is to create doubts in the minds of the batsmen.

we too easily assume that we are our real selves, and that our choices are really the ones we want to make when, in fact, our acts of free choice are (though morally imputable, no doubt) largely dictated by psychological compulsions, flowing from our inordinate ideas of our own importance.

The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time....

We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

In fact it seems to me as if that alienation which so long separated me from the world has become transferred into my own inner world, and has revealed to me an unexpected unfamiliarity with myself.

Practical experience and accurate observation show that one cannot influence one's own dreams. There are people, it is true, who assert that they can influence them. But if you look into their dream material, you find that they do only what I do with my disobedient dog: I order him to do those things I notice he wants to do anyhow, so that I can preserve my illusion of authority.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.

A man is a kind of inverted thermometer, the bulb uppermost, and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.

My mother was a terrible narcissist and I could well have turned out like her.