Socrates made people face their hypocrisy. He had to die.

When pointing out the flaws in others, people always end up talking about themselves.

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably...

Davranışı yönlendiren itici güçleri bilirsek, yalnızca şimdiki zamanda gerçekleştirilen davranışı anlamakla kalmayız, bir kişinin değiştirilmiş koşullar altında nasıl davranabileceği konusunda da akla uygun varsayımlarda bulunabiliriz.

The archetypal image of the redeemer serpent is certainly placed here in opposition to the serpents of evil that battle with it. But why do they both have the same form if there is only...

I want to open a broken marriage repair shop. I’m not a counselor or psychologist, but I am a fan of the magical bonding that occurs between two people when duct tape binds them together...

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period...

A clear line of distinctness must be drawn between the environment of the body and the environment of the mind or both the body and the mind be regarded as intertwined and be deprived of...

The DSM-IV-TR is a 943-page textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association that sells for $99…There are currently 374 mental disorders. I bought the book…and leafed through it…I closed the manual. “I wonder if I’ve...

I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.

We are parts of one universe, true enough. We stand within an almost infinite network of relationships. Yet each of us is a single point of consciousness, a unique event, a private, unrepeatable world. This...

The most critical of these new religious developments for twentieth-century religious liberalism were a renewed and transformed emphasis on mystical practice and experience, the healing ministry known as mind cure, and the rise of modern...

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...

What is humor?’ one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ”nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they’re coming apart.

A man’s Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.

Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is conducive...

There is no talking rationally, using logic or facts, with someone under the spell of the psychic epidemic, as their ability to reason and to use discernment has been disabled and distorted in service to...

…it is my belief that all of us suffer from some kind of mental instability. What would you say if I told you we all are a little crazy?

Dissociation is the ultimate form of human response to chronic developmental stress, because patients with dissociative disorders report the highest frequency of childhood abuse and/or neglect among all psychiatric disorders. The cardinal feature of dissociation...

Wilhelm Reich identified ‘armor’ as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individual develops as a blocking against his emotional excitations, resulting in rigidity of the body, lack of emotional contact, ‘deadness’. Functionally...

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.