best quotations about
Psychology |
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Quotations
 | Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 16 likes |
 | It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 15 likes |
 | Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 13 likes |
 | To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 11 likes |
 | Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 10 likes |
 | There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 8 likes |
 | Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 7 likes |
| Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 5 likes |
 | Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 4 likes |
| Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 4 likes |
| So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes - with the exception of their occupation. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 4 likes |
 | The books say we' re supposed to have penis envy, but look who wrote the books. — Yoko Ono, 1935-, Japanese artist 3 likes |
| The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle. This gives rise to the Oedipus complex. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 3 likes |
 | In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 3 likes |
 | Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 3 likes |
 | Every ideology is contrary to human psychology. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 2 likes |
 | The unconscious is structured like a language. — Jacques Lacan, 1901-1981, French psychoanalyst 2 likes |
| The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 2 likes |
| Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor who just wanted to see what it was like in there. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 2 likes |
| Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 2 likes |
 | Exercise your heart, do what makes you happy! |
 | Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world. |
 | In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations. |
 | Dali: a Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis. |
 | A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of ‘spirit’ over matter. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
Personal Stories
| A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion — in Schiller’s words, a tyrant... My tyrant is psychology. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 2 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | Anyone who would go to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined! — Sam Goldwyn, 1879-1974, American film producer 4 likes |
