4,465 Quotes About Psychology

The devil finds work for idle hands. Bad thoughts find empty heads. So he kept his hands busy and his mind occupied.

Sometimes our spiritual programs take us far away from our inner belonging. We become addicted to the methods and programs of psychology and religion. We become so desperate to learn how to be, that our lives pass, and we neglect the practice of being.

We have let the house our fathers built fall into decay, and now we try to break into Oriental palaces that our fathers never knew. Anyone who has lost the historical symbols and cannot be satisfied with substitutes is certainly in a very difficult position today: before him there yawns the void, and he turns away from it in horror. What is worse, the vacuum gets filled with absurd political and social ideas, which one and all are distinguished by their spiritual bleakness.

The human creature is a social animal and will derive companionship of soul from the unlikeliest sources. It will be fed by even the hint of a smile or twinkle of the eye from a passerby where no more vital companionship food is to be had.

The unconscious is commonly regarded as a sort of incapsulated fragment of our most personal and intimate life - something like what the Bible calls the "heart" and considers the source of all evil thoughts.

Strong natures – or should one rather call them weak? - do not like to be reminded of this [their unconscious nature], but prefer to think of themselves as heroes.

Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are reduced from what man dreads: isolation

In everyone's life, most of the times, there is always a situation, where they have to start from the same point, the point, they started 7 years on an average from now. The only difference is, this time, they pick their direction and see their vision by being either wiser or stupider then they were 7 years ago

In everyone's life, most of the times, there is always a situation, where they have to start from the same point, the point, they started 7 years on an average from now. The only difference is, this time, they can pick their direction and see their vision by being either wiser or stupider then they were 7 years ago