Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves.

It may well have been, too, that the smiling moderation with which she faced and answered these blasphemies, that this tender and hypocritical rebuke appeared to her frank and generous nature as a particularly shameful...

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

An odd thing about perception is that when we identify some new thing with one or more of our five senses, it is not really, immutably real — it is a passing will o’ the...

I’m psychologically equipped for this.

We are now edging across the boundary – always a porous one – between self-justification and fantasy. Matthews’ story is by no means a complete fantasy: we can recognise every event. But the frame of...

There is only one “now.” Realize how rich you are in it. Right now you are creating history…your legacy. Make your time count. Do not wish your moments away. Do not ruin today by focusing...

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

If you want kids, choose your girlfriend like your future child has the deciding vote.

Il y a dans l’exercice du pouvoir un moment particulièrement réussi, quand l’individu se soumet aux désirs des autres. Non seulement avec spontanéité mais avec une sensation de vertu… Le moment le plus jouissif c’est...

Working with people is basically not a question of formal education; working with people is a question of energy and awareness. Everyone can basically work with people. It is a question of developing a presence...

Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think...

Ego is like an antivirus which eventually takes unwanted control of the computer itself.

We all do things in a certain individual way, according to our temperaments. Every human act — no matter how large or how small— is a direct expression of a man’s personality, and bears the...

It is time to climb the mountains of our mind

For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, “Can I believe this?”, but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, “Must I believe this?

In general, people find it easier to accept flattery or false praise than genuine admiration and love, because a build-up does not threaten their negative beliefs about themselves. It is not uncommon for people to...

I think more people would stay active in church, if they didn’t get so offended by the actions of members. Sometimes, you have to view places of worship as free mental health clinics, in order...

The problem with patience and discipline is that it requires both of them to develop each of them.

We’ll erase those who want to use us for our family prestige……and erase those girls who try to apply their patronizing psychology theories on us……and those stupid adults who only judge us by our outward...

The need to create a citadel in which to hide from the world is characteristic of people with a schizoid disposition

Because the problem of ritual abuse and mind control has not gone away – the survivors are still there – many more therapists have learnt about it. Survivors have spoken out and written their stories,...

There is no illness that is not exacerbated by stress.

In the future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and...

Understand when you listen to your intuition and commit to a life path that is unique to your desires, you’re likely choosing the path less traveled. This means there are going to be substantial obstacles...

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

Každému je jasné, jakou psychologickou skutečnost označuje jako pud, ale co vlastně pud jako takový je, jasné není. Právě tak je jasné, že například obraz Boha odpovídá určitému komplexu psychologických skutečností a že tedy představuje...

Nevědomí je přirozené bytí a jako takové je amorální, neboť obsahuje všechny negativní, destruktivní a ohavné stránky přírody. Nemá žádný důvod, aby je stydlivě zahalovalo, a tak o nich vypovídá zcela nepokrytě – pokud má...

Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely...

Anger’s like a battery that leaks acid right out of meAnd it starts from the heart ’til it reaches my outer me

Be yourself and original. You would be appreciated ultimately.

Saying of the ProphetEnvyEnvy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: ‘Greed is the mother of incapacity’.

When you’ve had a psychotic breakdown it’s always so difficult making that decision. You meet someone new and you wonder how much you should tell them? You wonder what that person’s threshold of ‘strange’ is,...

what is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.

Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn’t like.

This explosive psychological ‘sneaking’ occurs when a woman suppresses large parts of self into the shadows of the psyche. In the view of analytical psychology, the repression of both negative and positive instincts, urges, and...

Bu nasıl oldu? Nasıl oldu da, insanoğlu, doğaya karşı kazandığı utkunun doruğundayken, kendi yarattığı şeylerin tutsağı haline geldi, nasıl oldu da, ciddi olarak kendi kendini yok etme tehlikesiyle karşı karşıya kaldı?

I had some emotional issues, so I went to a therapist. And guess what I don’t have now? That’s right, I don’t have any extra money. But I still have those emotional issues.

Families that feel together, heal together.

…it was regarded as almost outside the proper interest of an analyst to give systematic attention to a person’s real experiences.

But insight doesn’t necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the...

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic...

Theories without data are like daydreams.

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is–and a woman too, I guess.

Their daddy was fond of saying that mistakes weren’t sins. The sin was not to learn from them.