Psychology Quotes - Page 24

• To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mother, Philosophy, Mean

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• I love the psychology versus math and logic. In algebra, "X" means any possible variable. I sort of think about "X" in terms of the equation of my own life. Adding "X" to my own life has given me a freedom that I didn't have before in the equation of my own existence.

  Allie X

  Mean, Math, Thinking

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• The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Levels, Come Up, Members

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

  Carl Jung

  Terror, Refuge, Inner Life

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.209, Psychology Press

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• Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.

  Carl Jung

  Yield, Self, Sea

  Carl Gustav Jung (1977). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: The practice of psychotherapy”

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• The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine

  Carl Jung

  Self, Opposites, Unions

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Psychics, Definitions

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• Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.

  Eric Ries

  People, Want, Able

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• The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In the first case, consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. In the second case, so much darkness comes to light that the personality is permeated with light and consciousness necessarily gains in scope and insight. The encounter between conscious and unconscious has to ensure that the light that shines in the darkness is not only comprehended by the darkness, but comprehends it.

  Carl Jung

  Running, Dark, Differences

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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• Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial Man. In this way our existence as separate beings, our former ego nature, is abolished, the circle of consciousness is widened, and because the paradoxes have been made conscious, the sources of conflict are dried up.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Reflection, Circles

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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• It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail

  Carl Jung

  Fate, Men, Details

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “Answer to Job”

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• There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.

  Carl Jung

  Situations In Life, Psychics, Perception

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• By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly discerned nature of the spirit. A symbol does not define or explain; it points beyond itself to a meaning that is darkly divined yet still beyond our grasp, and cannot be adequately expressed in the familiar words of our language.

  Carl Jung

  Mean, Doe, Way

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body

  Carl Jung

  Self, Depth, Body

  Carl Gustav Jung, Karl Kerényi (2002). “Science of Mythology: Essays on the Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis”, p.109, Psychology Press

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• Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.

  Carl Jung

  Goal, Excellence, Life Is

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

  Ariel Gore

  Privilege, Stuck, Rejects

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• Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

  David Chase

  Soul, Addresses, Sopranos

  David Chase, Carlo De Vito (2009). “The Sopranos: The Classic Quotes: 100 Unforgettable Bits of Wisdom&Humor From Americas Favorite Families”, Cider Mill Press

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• Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

  Norman O. Brown

  Progress, Society, Neurosis

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.18, Wesleyan University Press

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• Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

  Henry Adams

  Study, Judgment, Politician

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.163, Booklassic

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• People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street.

  James A. Baldwin

  Kids, People, Cry

  "James Baldwin Back Home" by Robert Coles, archive.nytimes.com. July 31, 1977.

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• The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler's later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. "Our science ... is based on common sense." Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

  Alfred Adler

  Names, Common Sense, Sides

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• Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Practice, Risk, Technique

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.30, Arcade Publishing

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• Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion.... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.... The sound man needs work to keep him sound, but the nervous invalid has an even greater need of work to draw him out of his isolation, and to stop the miseries of doubt and self-scrutiny, to win back self-respect and the support of fellowship.

  Richard Clarke Cabot

  Winning, Men, Self

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• When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology .

  Bill Vaughan

  Twists, Novelists, Fiction

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• After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Passion, Half, Century

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