4,465 Quotes About Psychology

Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.

A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

A weakling is incapable of sincerity.

Psychopaths [make] the world go around...society [is] an expression of that particular sort of madness...I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.