Psychological Quotes - Page 8

• When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.

  Florence King

  Women, Mean, Rights

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• Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have so carefully posited 'reality' ab initio, and why throughout my whole discussion, I remain an epistemologist realist.

  William James

  Reality, Ideas, Giving

  William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.74, 谷月社

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• It is important for practical and psychological reasons to call any reasonably stable group that rears children a family.... The advantage of this view is that traditional and nontraditional families can all be seen to serve the interests of children. Children can also feel comfortable with an approved family form, even if it is not traditional.

  Sandra Scarr

  Children, Views, Important

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• To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, People, Profound

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• Yearning is the word that best describes a common psychological state shared by many of us, cutting across boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexual practice.

  Bell Hooks

  Cutting, Race, Practice

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.44, Routledge

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• A sense of reverence is necessary for psychological health. If a person has no sense of reverence, no feeling that there is anyone or anything that inspires awe, it cuts the personality off completely from the nourishing springs of the unconscious.

  Robert Johnson

  Spring, Cutting, Psychological Health

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• Western man represents himself, on the political or psychological stage, in a spectacular world-theater. Our personality is innately cinematic, light-charged projections flickering on the screen of Western consciousness.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Light, Personality

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.99, Vintage

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• Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Reality, Choices

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• I've come off heroin twice, and the worst part is laying in bed kicking and not being able to keep still. The physical withdrawal doesn't last that long, but then it's just all psychological. I think it's worse than cigarettes.

  Russell Brand

  Thinking, Long, Bed

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I don't want to be quoted as 'Tom Hiddleston, psychologist says...' But there is a psychological aspect to being an actor. We are particular students of human nature - not every actor is, of course, but that's what fascinates me about being an actor.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Actors, Want, Students

  "Marvel Avengers Assemble - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and more the stuff of fairy tales. Fairy tales are as ancient as we are. I love those stories. I think they're really interesting because they always have more than simply the fright aspect. There's something deeply psychological.

  Denis O'Hare

  Love Is, Thinking, Interesting

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• The exterior image of a human being and the diverse circumstances that surround him are the exact result of his interior image and of his psychological processes.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Process, Results, Circumstances

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• A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an authentic political and social consciousness, does little to halt the suicidal juggernaut of history. On the other hand, an activism that is not purified by profound spiritual and psychological self-awareness ... will only perpetuate the problem it is trying to solve, however righteous its intentions.

  Andrew Harvey

  Spiritual, Suicidal, Self

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• Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But these images do not capture the anxiety behind our search for mirrors. We are insecure in our understanding of ourselves, and this insecurity breeds a new preoccupation with the question of who we are. We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object.

  Sherry Turkle

  Lying, Insecure, Mirrors

  Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.279, MIT Press

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• If I haven't had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I've already done on this show, this isn't gonna hurt much more.

  Adam Savage

  Hurt, Long, Done

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• Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.

  Marianne Williamson

  Healing, Emotional, Miracle

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Getting control of stuff makes people feel like they have more control over their lives - maybe irrationally, but it's one of these psychological truths.

  Gretchen Rubin

  People, Stuff, Feels

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Since the attachment to the cult of Islam is psychological, the solution must also be psychological. We have all the logical proof that Islam is false. But logic has its limitation. Brainwashed people dismiss logic and pride themselves in their blind faith. Psychological warfare is extremely powerful. The Muslim bravado must be destroyed by humiliations and ridicule.

  Ali Sina

  Powerful, Pride, Attachment

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Just one mental shift-focusing on the abundance of your environment-switches your psychological settings so that your life automatically improves in many areas you may think are unrelated. This is essentially a leap from fear to faith.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, May, Environment

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• Awakening is waking up from the daytime dream and realizing that who you thought you were is not limited to thought, emotion or form. Beyond the imaginary seeker, beyond concepts and beliefs, there is a field of innocence and purity. We are this deep peace and sacredness, which is absolute and beyond all intellectual understanding. I invite you to recognize this Essence of Being and to directly realize the illusion of all psychological suffering due to misidentification, misperception of separation and attachment to conditioned thought.

  Katie Davis

  Dream, Attachment, Essence

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• I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Different, Would Be

  "Emotionally weird? Moi?". Interview with Kim Bunce, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2000.

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• I think I'm built like a painter. I have friends who are painters and they reflect a similar psychological attitude towards their work. They don't know what's coming next, they just wait for the message, for orders to come and then off they go on their next project.

  John McLaughlin

  Attitude, Thinking, Order

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• Fears are all psychological. Being afraid of death, loss of a loved one and disfigurement are all powered by your mind, and that's very powerful stuff.

  John Carpenter

  Powerful, Loss, Mind

  Source: collider.com

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• When the material, psychological and spiritual dimensions are brought into balance, life becomes whole, and this union brings feelings of comfort and security.

  Deepak Chopra

  Education, Spiritual, Laughter

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: A Practical Alternative To Growing Old”, p.168, Random House

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• To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with psychological niceties of Buddhist philosophy.

  Max Muller

  Buddhist, Philosophy, Moral

  F. Max Muller (2014). “The Dhammapada and Sutta-Nipata”, p.58, Routledge

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