Quotes on psychology
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.
Jung, Carl G.
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
Brown, Norman O.
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.
McLaughlin, Mignon
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.
Thurber, James Grover
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
Voltaire
Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
Szasz, Thomas
Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.
Chase, David
A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.
Norman, Geoffrey
Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.
Epstein, Mark
The sun is nature's Prozac.
Alauda, Astrid
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Williams, Ben
People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding.
Stekel, Wilhelm
Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.
Busch, Dr. Douglas
Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?
Torke, Michael
Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.
Ebbinghaus, Hermann
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.
Connolly, Cyril
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Adams, Joey
Loneliness... is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
Wolfe, Thomas
If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is a vice?
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Aeschylus
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.
McLaughlin, Mignon