Psychology Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

20 Psychology quotes by D. H. Lawrence

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Lawrence’s raw, visceral voice cuts to the heart of what drives us. These 20 quotes lay bare his fascination with instinct, repression, and the clash between society and the inner self.

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“Instead of men kissing you, and touching you, they revealed their minds to you. It was great fun! But what cold minds!”

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The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.

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Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

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The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

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Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses.

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If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human…

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In America the chief accusation seems to be one of "Eroticism." This is odd, rather puzzling to my mind. Which Eros? Eros…

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The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls…

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“Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the…

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I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like…

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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness,…

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“Her lungs felt thick and slow, her mind dissolved, she felt she could cling like a bat in the long swoon of…

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Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child… Leave his sensibilities, his emotions,…

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I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of…

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That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man…

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I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet…

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For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.…

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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a…

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How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a…

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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in…

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Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.

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and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is…

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If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and…

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Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise…

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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

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Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and…

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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not…

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The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close.…

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It is our business to go as we are impelled.

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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

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If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

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The living moment is everything.

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If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

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