Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level… — Don Edward Beck Copy Share Image
As a social anthropologist, I naturally accept and even stress the fact that there are major differences, both mental and psychological, which… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He has so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands worship every… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
I'm quite shocked by the recent British media stories about an alleged brawl between myself and Dereck Chisora. I am a professional… — Wladimir Klitschko Copy Share Image
I'm also looking for the psychological elements that fuel commodity culture. For example, if we imbue girls with deep insecurity about their… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The suit gave him strength, but not freedom. It gave him youth, but not peace. It gave him Lucian’s gaze— and that… — Valon G Copy Share Image
We have made a terrible mistake! For most of this century we have wrongly defined soul wounds as psychological disorders and delegated… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side; it has revealed to us… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
We were never a band that did 96 takes of the same thing. I had heard of groups that were into that… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
The great philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries did not think that epistemological questions floated free of questions about how the… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: 'Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to… — William Duncan Silkworth Copy Share Image
It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
An indoor (or backseat) childhood does reduce some dangers to children; but other risks are heightened, including risks to physical and psychological… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Religions fulfill deep-seated psychological needs for people, and if you don't get it from a specific religious doctrine, you'll get it from… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
I'm a very self-conscious person, I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I've seen people recover physical abilities, yet never get over emotional trauma after a serious accident. I've seen other people overcome the… — Jim Stovall Copy Share Image
Psychological wealth includes life satisfaction, the feeling that life is full of meaning, a sense of engagement in interesting activities, the pursuit… — Ed Diener Copy Share Image
When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Everything the CIA does is deniable. It's part of its Congressional mandate. Congress doesn't want to be held accountable for the criminal… — Douglas Valentine Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
Since functional brain imaging first emerged, we have learned that there aren't very many brain regions uniquely responsible for specific tasks; most… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
I believe the reason we sleep is not just to allow our body to rest but that it is to allow this… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Jobs had begun to drop acid by then, and he turned Brennan on to it as well, in a wheat field just… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
You see everything depends upon the psychological headquarters from which we live. 'Where am I living from?' Ask yourself that question. If… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Parallel parking is desirable for two reasons: parked cars create a physical barrier and psychological buffer that protects pedestrians on the sidewalk… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
Fortunately for common sense, psychological research has shown that babies with more than one attachment are less distressed whenmother leaves to go… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
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