Top Psychology Quotes

In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free?

I have never been sad because my losses are my profits

Psychology Definition

(n.) The science of the human soul; specifically, the systematic or scientific knowledge of the powers and functions of the human soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul.

Dissociation of the mind into logic-tight compartments is by no means confined to the population of the asylum. It is a common, and perhaps inevitable, occurrence in the psychology of every human bein...

She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars.

Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world.

الحنين إلى الجنة إذاً هو رغبة الإنسان في ألًا يكون إنساناً.

إذا كان الهياج الجنسي آلية يتسلى بها الخالق، فإن الحب، خلافاً لذلك لا ينتمي إلا إلينا ويمكننا من خلاله الإفلات من قبضة الخالق. فالحب هو حريتنا. الحب هو ما وراء كل «ما ليس منه بد».

There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence. Not an attractive combination, beca...

That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic.

We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to endow it with any positive life-force; hence we avoid and fear it.

يعتبر تفتيش المواطنين ومراقبتهم من النشاطات الاجتماعية الأساسية والدائمة في البلدان الشيوعية. فَلِكي ينال رسام حقّه في إقامة معرض أو مواطنٌ على تأشيرة لقضاء عطلته على الشاطئ، أو لكي تتم الموافقة على ا...

كان علىّ أن أحاول أن أوفق بين فكرتي عن نفسي كإنسانة تتكلم بهدوء ومنضبطة تماما, إنسانة على الأقل حساسة عموما لأمزجة ومشاعر الآخرين.. وبين امرأة ساخطة ومجنونة تماما وفاقدة لكل منافذ السيطرة على النفس وا...

There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

As an undergraduate student in psychology, I was taught that multiple personalities were a very rare and bizarre disorder. That is all that I was taught on ... It soon became apparent that what I had...

Emotions, moods, impulses, ebb and flow with the tide of my life. Tidal waves, at times, in a bipolar mind.

Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ideas and gestalts, a process Proust beautifully describes: We pack the physical outline of the crea...

You are the most lucky person in the world, only if you BELIEVE so.

Should' assumes that when either willingness or ability is lacking, it may be compensated for by an abundance of the other. This is simply not realistic.

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational...