Psycho Quotes

There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.

Through others we become ourselves.

Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation.

Love is a state of temporary psychosis.

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of training—belonging to man's learned behavior.

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one

If you are not prepared to look at your pupils strength's, don't touch their weaknesses.

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.

Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity?

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

Christianity was created by some decadent and degenerated Romans as a tool of oppression, in the late Roman era, and it should be treated accordingly. It is like handcuffs to the mind and spirit and is nothing but destructive to mankind. In fact I don't really see Christianity as a religion. It is more like a spiritual plague, a mass psychosis, and it should first and foremost be treated as a problem to be solved by the medical science. Christianity is a diagnosis. It's like Islam and the other Asian religions, a HIV/AIDS of the spirit and mind.

The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Problem talk creates problems, Solution talk creates solutions.

Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all?

The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life.

A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.

This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in a test tube, or has in any way come into a relationship with it as he has with the other objects of his daily experience.

Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage

We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.