Psychology Quotes - Page 19

• It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Human Nature, Pity, Psychiatrist

  Observer 9 December (1934)

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• Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

  Bertrand Russell

  Civilization, Long, Survival

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• History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

  Hippolyte Taine

  History, Problem, Mechanic

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• Positive psychology is to the corporate state what eugenics was to the Nazis

  Chris Hedges

  Eugenics, Nazi, States

  Chris Hedges (2014). “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”, p.117, Nation Books

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• I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here. If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect. I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market. There's an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.

  Alan Greenspan

  Issues, Interesting, Gold

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• Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.

  Karl Abraham

  Children, Opposites, Yield

  Karl Abraham (1968). “Selected Papers, with an Introductory Memoir by Ernest Jones”

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• Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul.

  Jean Houston

  Journey, Practice, Soul

  Jean Houston (1987). “The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Mythology and Sacred Psychology”, Tarcher

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• There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.

  Robert Sternberg

  Obvious

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• Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

  David Chalmers

  Interesting, Philosopher, Consciousness

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• Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.

  David Chalmers

  Thinking, Views, People

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• Magick has many aspects, but primarily it acts as a dramatized system of “psychology

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Aspect

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• To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image making faculty, is a very important part of our mental functioning. An image formed by the imagination is a reality from the point of view of psychology; it is quite true that it has no physical existence, but are we going to limit reality to that which is material? We shall be far out of our reckoning if we do, for mental images are potent things, and although they do not actually exist on the physical plane, they influence it far more than most people suspect.

  Dion Fortune

  Reality, Views, People

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• Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Science, Analysis, Problem

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1904). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• When I create music, it is a reflection of my soul, my experiences in life and my relationships with other people and cultures. Psychology, and understanding who we are as people in this world, is present in almost every creative thought I have.

  Yanni

  Reflection, People, Creative

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• But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone knows in language which no one understands'.

  Raymond Cattell

  Running, Circles, Fields

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• All of us are much more human than otherwise

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Humans

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• The most striking feature of the perennial philosophy/psychology is that it presents being and consciousness as a hierarchy of dimensional levels, moving from the lowest, densest, and most fragmentary realms to the highest, subtlest, and most unitary ones.

  Ken Wilber

  Philosophy, Moving, Levels

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Eye to Eye: The Quest for the New Paradigm”, p.113, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.

  Michelle Wie

  Sports, Crazy, Madness

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• Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow,
  Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle,
  Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so
  Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town
  and
  History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.

  Albert Goldbarth

  Night, Rainbow, Body

  Albert Goldbarth (1991). “Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems”, p.118, University of Georgia Press

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• Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.

  Paul Bloom

  Two, White, Population

  "The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century (Toward a Theory of Moral Development)". Anthology edited by John Brockman, May 14, 2002.

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• When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Break Up, Exercise, Drug Use

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• It’s not rocket science. It’s social science – the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history, music, work, philosophy, community, technology and psychology. The act of design is structuring and creating that balance.

  Clement Mok

  Art, Philosophy, Unique

  "Everything Reverberates: Thoughts on Design". Book edited by American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1998.

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• No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

  George H. Mead

  Lines, Individual, Social

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• A renaissance in cellular biology has recently revealed the molecular mechanisms by which thoughts and perceptions directly influence gene activity and cell behavior...Energy psychology, through its ability to rapidly identify and reprogram limiting misconceptions, represents the most powerful and effective process to enhance physical and emotional well being.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Powerful, Emotional, Cells

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• Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.

  Rumi

  Love, Fall, Eye

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