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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the… — Charles Caleb Colton
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. — Bob Hope
As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of… — Philibert Joseph Roux
How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we… — William James
We are all born; some remain so. — Samuel Beckett
Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we… — Elizabeth Bowen
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 the kind of… — James Cameron
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats. — Aldous Huxley
Fascination with the psychic - or the psychological - can be a dangerous sidetrack on any spiritual path. — Starhawk
The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that… — Sam Keen
Every child has to disobey the father. Unless a child disobeys the father he never becomes mature. It is nothing, original, it is very simple… — Rajneesh
Whether the psychological effect of color is direct...or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The soul being one with the… — Wassily Kandinsky
I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method… — Alfred Binet
Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though… — Aristotle
Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out… — Peter Kreeft
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's… — Rollo May
Heaven and hell are not geographical. If you go in search of them you will never find them anywhere. They are within you, they are… — Rajneesh
Heaven and hell are not geographical, they are psychological, they are your psychology. — Rajneesh
The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics… — Carl Jung
I think in the coming decade we will see well-conducted research demonstrating that emotional skills and competencies predict positive outcomes at home with one's family,… — Peter Salovey
Psychological wealth includes life satisfaction, the feeling that life is full of meaning, a sense of engagement in interesting activities, the pursuit of important goals,… — Ed Diener
While there have been great technological advances in the study of the brain, yielding enormous amounts of data on its physical and psychological characteristics, the… — Michael Gazzaniga
Anyone who feels that they're in some way plugged into a meaningful, cosmic system is given a greater psychological balance as a result-whether or not… — Robin Skynner
Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little voice will tell… — Barbara Oakley
Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice. — Erik Erikson

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