Critical Quote by Arthur Koestler

We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestion and contagion…

— Gustave Le Bon

A person's current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment…

— Kim Ki-duk

If aspects of the person remain undigested-cut off, denied, projected, rejected, indulged, or otherwise unassimilated-they become the points around which the core forces of…

— Mark Epstein

“And in the individual too, justice is effective coördination, the harmonious functioning of the elements in a man, each in its fit place and…

— Will Durant

“The medial woman is immersed in the psychic atmosphere of her environment and the spirit of her period, but above all in the collective…

— Toni Wolff

“Malevolent ASPD. Possibly one of the most dangerous subtypes, psychopaths who fall into this category have dominant tendencies related to sadism (violence) and paranoia.”

— T. Rivers, Clarence

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

— Ezra Pound

We have the tendency to judge others by their surface appearance, and to find only their negative qualities. But if we search beneath the…

— Radhanath Swami

One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly…

— Charles Horton Cooley

The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that…

— Arthur Koestler

“You can kill the spell of identification just as easily as you can create it—if you lose the readers' sympathy for the character. You…

— James N. Frey

A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.

— Bertrand Russell