Psychology Quotations

Authors that have more than 2 quotes: Mignon McLaughlin

Joey Adams

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A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

- Joey Adams

Aeschylus

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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

- Aeschylus

Astrid Alauda

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The sun is nature's Prozac.

- Astrid Alauda

Unknown Author

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A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

- Unknown Author

The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.

- Unknown Author

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Psychoanalysis: Confession without absolution.

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

E.M. Cioran

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Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.

- E.M. Cioran

Mason Cooley

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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

- Mason Cooley

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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To be too conscious is an illness - a real thoroughgoing illness.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Martin H. Fischer

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Sure you can psychoanalyze! But as Baehr used to say, why bother to sort garbage?

- Martin H. Fischer

The reflex is physiology below the collar button. Psychology is physiology above the collar button.

- Martin H. Fischer

Sigmund Freud

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The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

- Sigmund Freud

Carl G. Jung

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Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

- Carl G. Jung

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

- Carl G. Jung

C.G. Jung

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There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.

- C.G. Jung

D.H. Lawrence

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If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

- D.H. Lawrence

Mignon McLaughlin

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Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.

- Mignon McLaughlin

The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

- Mignon McLaughlin

There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.

- Mignon McLaughlin

Vladimir Nabokov

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Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.

- Vladimir Nabokov

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is - a vice?

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Fritz Perls

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To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

- Fritz Perls

Rainer Maria Rilke

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If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

George Santayana

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Depression is rage spread thin.

- George Santayana

Dodie Smith

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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.