4,465 Quotes About Psychology

If people don’t like you, practically nothing you do will be received well.

Psychology at best tells us how things are, not how they are supposed to be! There is no utopic science.

The narrative illusion introduces a “mind virus”, which is a syntactical contagion that spreads through communicative vectors and colonizes the cognitive biases of the targeted individual’s psychology, thus transforming the mental processes of that target.

PROFILNEUROSE: Wenn jemand sich vor anderen wieder und wieder darstellen muss, auch wenn die ihn schon jahrelang kennen und das langweilig finden. Es ist die Vorstufe von Narzissmus, wo einer nur noch sich selber sieht und liebt. Keine Ahnung, was das alles mit Rosen und Narzissen zu tun hat, aber es betrifft nicht nur Gärtner.

Everybody’s behavior makes sense to them

Write people’s accomplishments in stone and their faults in sand.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

People act the way they do because they have learned to act that way.

Whereas in its developments up to the present psychology has dealt chiefly with psychic processes in the light of physical causation, the future task of psychology will be the investigation of their spiritual determinants. But the natural history of the mind is no further advanced today than was natural science in the thirteenth century. We have only begun to take scientific note of our spiritual experiences.