Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“The wolf did not ask for permission. It waited until Gabriel’s desire opened the door. Not with courage. Not with dignity. But… — Valon G Copy Share Image
His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival… — Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr Copy Share Image
We have opted for petty determinisms - childhood trauma, genetic inheritance, social conditioning, etc. - that have made us comparatively passive. We… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an authentic political and social consciousness, does little to halt the… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you always meditate on sin, "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," actually you will become a sinner. The psychological… — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar Copy Share Image
I used to think that good short-sellers could be trained like long-focused value investors because it should be the same skill set;… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
“I danced in the flames and pranced on the shames of those whose names I could not reveal. I have been told,… — The Raveness Copy Share Image
I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I want my books to explore motives which make people think, 'Wow! Imagine the psychological state you'd have to be in for… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Kids whose puberty begins too soon face not just psychological risks, but physical ones too, with an increased likelihood of cancer, as… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
In "Twilight," the narratives are more literal, and the event is much more spectacular. The pictures in "Beneath the Roses" are much… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The more you get a batsman out the more it becomes psychological. A batsman starts thinking about it and making something of… — Glenn McGrath Copy Share Image
Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force. When less color and less intense color is present, trace amounts and subtle… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Echo is very important to me. I love the repetition of motifs, or the slight alteration of what's been said before. This… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I hesitate to say I was the class clown, but that was kind of how I interacted with other kids in school,… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
Markets also have a very bad psychological effect. They drive people to a conception of themselves and society in which you're only… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's… — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
“Keep a logical but open mind. What one may pass off as a psychological dysfunction could be a burst of imagination at… — Lauren Lola Copy Share Image
I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
If I haven't had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I've already done on this show, this isn't… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
'Among Friends' was really well written and had strong characters, and while all the elements were there to make it a great… — Danielle Harris Copy Share Image
The dramas for me allow me to explore more behavioral, deeper psychological things. But the comedies obviously allow me to explore the… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have… — William James Copy Share Image
“Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people – and not to be dragged… — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image