Quotes on psychology
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.
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Carl G. Jung Quotes
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
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Norman O. Brown Quotes
The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
I was seized by the stern hand of compulsion, that dark, unseasonable urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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James Grover Thurber Quotes
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Voltaire Quotes
Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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Carl G. Jung Quotes
There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
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Thomas Szasz Quotes
Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.
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David Chase Quotes
A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.
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Geoffrey Norman Quotes
The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
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Sigmund Freud Quotes
Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.
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Mark Epstein Quotes
The sun is nature's Prozac.
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Astrid Alauda Quotes
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
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Ben Williams Quotes
People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding.
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Wilhelm Stekel Quotes
If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.
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D.H. Lawrence Quotes
Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.
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Dr. Douglas Busch Quotes
Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?
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Michael Torke Quotes
Depressed? Of course we're all depressed. We've been so quickly, violently, and irreconcilably plucked from nature, from physical labor, from kinship and village mentality, from every natural and primordial anti-depressant. The further society "progresses," the grander the scale of imbalance. Just as fluoride is put in water to prevent dental caries, we'll soon find government mandating Prozac in our water to prevent mental caries.
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M. Robin D'Antan Quotes
Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.
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Hermann Ebbinghaus Quotes
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
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Paul Dudley White Quotes
To be too conscious is an illness - a real thoroughgoing illness.
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Fyodor Dostoevski Quotes
Why do we pay for psychotherapy when massages cost half as much?
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Jason Love Quotes
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.
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Cyril Connolly Quotes
Sure you can psychoanalyze! But as Baehr used to say, why bother to sort garbage?
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
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Joey Adams Quotes
Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.
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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Loneliness... is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
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Thomas Wolfe Quotes
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
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Sigmund Freud Quotes
If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well.
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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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.
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Richard C. Cabot Quotes
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is a vice?
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
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Aeschylus Quotes
Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes