400 Quotes About Psychological


  • Author Christian Jungersen
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    We let rip with idealism and grand words, but it's nothing but rationalizations of our own egoistic behavior. Not only do we lie to others; we also lie to ourselves. Each one of us lives inside a house of mirrors -- our own instinctive self-righteousness distorts the way we view reality so that we can justify our actions to ourselves. And there's no way we can escape.

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  • Author Thomas Heerma van Voss
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    Twee verkleurde spijkerbroeken, een te wijde trui. Rucanor­gympen die tien jaar geleden al uit de mode waren. Wat zou er eerder zijn geweest, het verval van de kleren of van de lichamen?

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  • Author غوستاف لوبون
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    فالجماهير لم تكن في حياتها أبدا ظمأى للحقيقة. وأمام الحقائق التي تزعجهم فإنهم يحولون أنظارهم باتجاه آخر، ويفضلون تأليه الخطأ، إذا ما جذبهم الخطأ. فمن يعرف إيهامهم يصبح سيدا لهم، ومن يحاول قشع الأوهام عن أعينهم يصبح ضحية لهم

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  • Author Winston Graham
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    A vida é a mesma coisa que se ficar num hospício de loucos", pensei. "Cada um vai circulando, imerso e afogado em suas próprias desilusões, sem que ninguém veja. A pessoa vai abrindo caminhos pelas celas, passando por entre os companheiros atormentados, rumo àquele que parece o único mentalmente são". Era exatamente o que eu estava fazendo agora.

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  • Author John Williams
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    For an intsant he felt the truth of what he said, and for the first time in months he felt lift away from him the weight of a despair whose heaviness he had not fully realized. Nearly giddy, almost laughing, he said again, 'It really isn't important.

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  • Author John Williams
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    He said, 'In theory, your life is your own to lead. In theory, you ought to be able to screw anybody you want to, do anything you want to, and it shouldn't matter so long as it doesn't interfere with your teaching. But damn it, your life isn't your own to lead. It's--oh, hell. You know what I mean.

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  • Author Marshall Sahlins
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    Parsons famously divided the social science world into a set of component "systems"—notably the social, the cultural, and the psychological—a division that by now seems as arbitrary as it was then influential, especially in its distinction between social structure and the cultural order. Even at the time, it struck some that the project was like analyzing water into its discernible ele­ments of hydrogen and oxygen in order to understand why it runs downhill.

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