4,465 Quotes About Psychology

Humans are mostly kind only to their own-self, and their own. To another being, they're mostly indifferent, if not inhumane.

It does not take a man to stand with the strong, it takes a man to stand with the weak and oppose the strong.

Ambiguity begets participation.

The true self is that which is in touch with reality. The false self is the aspects of your personality that are adapted to threats and no longer consciously recognizes either the adaptation or the threat.

We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

Lacan wrote about two levels of speaking, one in which we know what we are saying (even when struggling with something difficult or contradictory) and another in which we have no idea of what we are saying. In this second level of speaking there are repeating words, phrases, and even sounds that function as magnets of unconscious meaning, condensing multiple scenes, times, and ideas. He called such markers in speech 'signifiers.

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.

Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world.