4,465 Quotes About Psychology

There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.

I believe that we exist for our shared values, for it is only through caring for something bigger than ourselves that we are given permission to be ourselves.

The most insulting aspect of insincere people is that while they're pretending to be something other than what they are, they're inherently positing a different reality to you.

Silence is nice to have if you wanted it, but maddening if you didn't.

The development of man's intellectual capacities has far outstripped the development of his emotions. Man's brain lives in the twentieth century; the heart of most men lives still in the Stone Age. The majority of men have not yet acquired the maturity to be independent, to be rational, to be objective. They need myths and idols to endure the fact that man is all by himself, that there is no authority which gives meaning to life except man himself.

Your circumstances can define you OR you can choose to define yourself.

‎"...θα πρέπει να αντιληφθείς, αγαπητή Τερέζα, ότι τα αντικείμενα δεν έχουν, κατά την άποψη μας, άλλη αξία από εκείνη που τους δίνει η φαντασία μας

We attribute to ourselves qualities that we do not possess because if we possessed them, our lives would exactly mirror our image of ourselves. Our lies about what is really happening in our lives are what we use to "patch up" our ego with rationalizations and justifications, all of which conceal from us the fact that we cannot really do anything because we have no Being.

The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance