Human Psyche Quotes - Page 2

• You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

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• A fundamental understanding of the human psyche is the essential key to successful magic.

  Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

  Successful, Keys, Understanding

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• The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel nature deeper you resonate better with her, finding new elements of balance and freedom.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Music, Soul, Balance

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• A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society.

  Robert McKee

  Powerful, Drama, Light

  Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.

  Claire Danes

  Thinking, Psychology, Information

  "Claire Danes' Glamour January Issue Cover-Shoot". Glamour interview, www.glamour.com. January 2014.

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• There is something in the human psyche that there is a connection between horses and humans, a real special kind of a thing, and I guess it’s always been there. I hope it will always be there, I hope we don’t evolve past that.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Real, Past

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• Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understanding nature as a correspondence, that is, a coming into congruence of pre-existing images of the human psyche with external objects and their behaviour. Modern man, of course, unlike Plato , looks on the pre-existent original images also as not invariable, but as relative to the development of a conscious point of view, so that the word "dialectic" which Plato is fond of using may be applied to the process of development of human knowledge.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Plato, Men, Understanding Nature

  "Writings on Physics and Philosophy" by Wolfgang Pauli, (p. 142), 1994.

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• I'm funding a new business with money I would have given away in the first place. And I'm starting a responsible business and I'm educating the consumer about chemistry that is totally sustainable - not just from a production point of view, but it also helps sustain the human psyche and physical body - based on informational, energetic matter.

  Horst Rechelbacher

  Responsible Business, Views, Matter

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I like big escapist films. It's odd because the type of comedian I am and the things I do when I'm writing and directing myself usually deal with the darker side of the human psyche and excruciating social faux pas. I often deal in taboos and the subjects I do as a stand-up are quite challenging. But my film roles have been much more fun and escapist.

  Ricky Gervais

  Fun, Writing, Challenges

  "Ricky Gervais Interview: 'Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb', Corpsing With Ben Stiller And The Best Bits Of His Job". HuffPostUK Intreview, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. July 4, 2015.

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• It would be a mistake to believe that one could come to any substantive understanding of politics by discussing abstractly the good, the right, the true, or the rational in complete abstraction from the way in which these items figure in the motivationally active parts of the human psyche, and particularly in abstraction from the way in which they impinge, even if indirectly, on human action.

  Raymond Geuss

  Mistake, Believe, Understanding

  Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.28, Princeton University Press

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• I love the whole kind of notion of transformation for me is (what) excites me about not only acting, but storytelling. I love, I love that notion of a slightly larger-than-life artistic truth, you know, magnifying real emotional truth (or) finding something about human condition (which), you wouldn't necessarily think you can learn from characters such as Kong or Gollum, but actually they are, you know, these huge amplifications of a human psyche and I suppose those kind of roles have always attracted me definitely.

  Andy Serkis

  Real, Character, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm obsessed with the human psyche. I want to understand. I want to ask myself if I have it inside me.

  Noomi Rapace

  Want, Obsessed, Humans

  Source: collider.com

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• People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest in the human mechanism and the human psyche and what makes people tick. And yes, I think I'm particularly creative and adventurous and improvisational and spontaneous in my inner impulses and patterns and deeply curious and appetized in the unfathomably mysterious and delicious phenomena that is the human being and who we really are.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Thinking, People, Creative

  "HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Jeff Goldblum Talks Law & Order: Criminal Intent’s New Detective and More!". Interview, eclipsemagazine.com. April 29, 2009.

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• Isolation is devastating to the human psyche.

  Gary Chapman

  Isolation, Humans, Solitary Confinement

  Gary Chapman (2015). “The 5 Love Languages/The 5 Love Languages for Men Set”, p.22, Moody Publishers

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• I think that there is something in the human psyche, that when it approaches a big mark up point it tends to get doom laden.

  Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

  Thinking, Bigs, Mark

  Interview with Mark Stavish, www.servantsofthelight.org. June 10, 1996.

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• Religions are institutions that push you up the mountain and then they have their fantasies about the spirit. I mean they try to make God like the human psyche and it's wrong. I mean it's a projection of the mind, and you can use it to get a start and then you must leave it behind.

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  Ram Dass

  Mean, Mind, Mountain

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals.

  Richard Dawkins

  Two, Evil, People

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Freedom Of Speech, Brain, Mind

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• Aristotle taught that stars are made of a different matter than the four earthly elements— a quintessence— that also happens to be what the human psyche is made of. Which is why man’s spirit corresponds to the stars. Perhaps that’s not a very scientific view, but I do like the idea that there’s a little starlight in each of us.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Stars, Men, Views

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.41, Macmillan

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• My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

  Poul Anderson

  Yield, Statistics, Imperfect

  Poul Anderson (2003). “Going For Infinity: A Literary Journey”, p.525, Macmillan

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• Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche.

  Michael Jackson

  Heart, Soul, Library

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Sep 02, 2014

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• It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for we are still far from having anything like a thorough knowledge of the human psyche, that most challenging field of scientific enquiry. For the present we have merely more or less plausible opinions that defy reconciliation.

  Carl Jung

  Knowledge, Numbers, Psychology

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul". Book by Carl Jung, p. 57, 1933.

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• Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments.

  Gary Chapman

  Punishment, Isolation, Cry

  Gary Chapman (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set”, p.18, Moody Publishers

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• If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.

  Jack Vance

  Religious, War, Race

  "The Face". Book by Jack Vance, 1979.

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• Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept away in the general upheaval and reorganization of the whole of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the bare, shivering human soul, stripped to the last shred, the naked force of the human psyche for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.

  Boris Pasternak

  Lonely, Home, Dust

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