Quotes about Psychology

Forgive your enemies...it messes with their heads.

Most people's problems start as children when their parents, especially mothers, cause them to become angry.

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

To the superficial observer, it will appear like madness.

We should not try to "get rid" of a neurosis, but rather to experience what it means, what it has to teach, what its purpose is.

In order to make the language of dreams understood, we use many parallels from the psychology of primitive races as well as from historical symbolism. This is because dreams originate in the unconscious, which contains the residual potentialities of function of all preceding epochs of evolution.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light," he said, "but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

Modern people…are ignorant of what they really are. We have simply forgotten what a human being really is, so we have men like Nietzsche and Freud and Adler, who tell us what we are, quite mercilessly. We have to discover our shadow. Otherwise we are driven into a world war in order to see what beasts we are.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Success is the result of psychologically preparing for it, prior to achieving it!

What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

Billie offers to dig the garbage pit but does so by digging a neat tiny coffinshaped grave instead of just a garbage hole—Even Dave Wain blinks to see it—It's exactly the size fit for putting a little dead Elliott in it, Dave is thinking the same thing I am I can tell by a glance he gives me—We've all read Freud sufficiently to understand something there