4,465 Quotes About Psychology

there's this golden moment when the sun licks through the gauze fluttering at my window warming my eyes to openthis golden moment when I'm not yet awake enough to remember that there are things I would rather forget

Ideologies get corrupt in time, because humans following those ideologies cannot help but foster an implicit, i.e. subconscious hatred towards other humans following different ideologies.

Your loyalty to one ideology inadvertently conditions you to favor humans from the same ideology over the humans from different ideologies. So, ideologies can never in a million years bring progress. We are what we are, that is humans. And we have to act as such without identifying ourselves with some manmade label to look good and pompous

Where psychology fails is in trying to give plausibility and coherence to actions that have none.

Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one's painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.

You can, and should, exercise your freedom to excel.

Money, fame, knowledge, influence, freedom, speech and movement - are all derivatives of control; all earthlings who inhabit the earth will pursue control for most of their lifetimes with no exceptions, closely followed by the pursuit of pleasure.

Knowledge is overrated, even though it's so quickly attainable in the digital age, while intelligence, creativity and out-of-the-box thinking are so often undervalued, and, at times, ignored.

..."Един велик дух никога не е напълно ясен." Това е вярно, и точно така е с едно велико чувство - то никога не е съвсем ясно. Човек се наслаждава на едно истинско чувство, когато то е мъничко съмнително, а пък мисъл, в която няма поне малко противоречие, не е убедителна.