Psyche Quotes
278 quotes by 215 authors
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As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.
— Carl Jung
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One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single short poem has…
— Robert Bly
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That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.
— Richard Schickel
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Each place its own mind, its own psyche! Oak, Madrone, Douglas fir, red-tailed hawk, serpentine in the sandstone, a certain scale to the topography, drenching…
— David Abram
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Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life…
— Betty Buckley
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We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.
— Brad Dourif
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LSD was not a pharmacological agent generating exotic experiences by its interaction with the neurophysiological processes in the brain. This remarkable substance was clearly an…
— Stanislav Grof
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Over the course of four rough, ego-shattering hours, the ayahuasca shows me that opening myself to love of Zoe and all others is the sure…
— Chris Kilham
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Philemon explained how Jung treated thoughts as though they were generated by himself, while for Philemon thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people…
— Stanislav Grof
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The psyche is highly flammable material. So we are always wrapping things in asbestos, keeping our images and fantasies at arm's length because they are…
— James Hillman
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Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.
— James Hillman
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There is something in the human psyche that there is a connection between horses and humans, a real special kind of a thing, and I…
— Buck Brannaman
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Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche.
— Stephen Colbert
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The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is an…
— Kenny Smith
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I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived…
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and who habitually follow…
— James Hillman
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This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of…
— Stanislav Grof
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About 2500 years ago Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, wrote, He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop…
— Gioconda Belli
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in…
— Iris Chang
Who Wrote These Psyche Quotes
215 authors contributed a total of 278 Psyche Quotes, led by these top contributors: