4,465 Quotes About Psychology

ان اساس مشاعر الايثار انما يكمن في التعاطف الوجداني مع الآخرين،أي في القدرة على قراءة عواطفهم. أما العجز عن الاحساس باحتياج الآخر، أو بشعوره بالاحباط فمعناه عدم الاكتراث., the root of altruism lies inempathy, the ability to read emotions in others; lacking a sense of another'sneed or despair, there is no caring.

Most millennials who start jobs by age twenty one reach their first burnout when they are about twenty six to twenty seven years old. Their second burnout is between age twenty nine and thirty years.This is usually the time when most people reach out for help and almost believe in its legitimacy since they now feel that a decade of work has taken a toll on them.

I call it the Suckers’ Fifth Amendment – the Law of self-incrimination. It explains so many things, like why fat people are fat – because something’s eating them. Smokers? – someone lit a fire under their ass. The people who rush around so much? – they’re running from themselves. Druggies? – they’re so low they have to get high. People are always shouting out to the world what’s wrong with them. You just need to read the signs.

At the end of the party, each person will have selected certain players he would like to see more of, while others he will discard, regardless of how skillfully or pleasantly they each engaged in the pastime. The ones he selects are those who seem the most likely candidates for more complex relationships—that is, games. This sorting system, however well rationalized, is actually largely unconscious and intuitive.

Raising" children is primarily a matter of teaching them what games to play. Different cultures and different social classes favor different types of games, and various tribes and families favor different variations of these. That is the cultural significance of games.

People as a whole are shamsters. Grasp it well. And be well. Then, knowing fully well so, covering your butt, go on in life as if they are not. This is the only way to save your butt. Of course, you can always go live elsewhere. Like the Everest.

André Breton would not say "Surrealistic painting", he would say "Surrealism in painting". In the same way, I speak of Surrealism in film. Surrealism is psychology, it is philosophy, it is a spiritual way, but it is not an aesthetic. Surrealism is not interested in actually creating any kind of aesthetic.

Our world would be very different if the majority of babies had the chance to rule over their mothers like paschas and to be coddled by them, without having to concern themselves with their mothers’ needs.

Pretty interesting how energy is more about psychology rather than nutrition.