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In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to… — John Foster Dulles
The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics. — Daniel Kahneman
There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect the… — Kwame Nkrumah
The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large… — Edmund Husserl
There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause… — Michael Connelly
Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings… — Melanie Klein
Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth. — Albert Camus
There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today… — John B. Watson
Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences of… — John B. Watson
Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man. — Edward Thorndike
The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also… — Martin Seligman
Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage — Martin Seligman
So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral… — Martin Seligman
Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same… — Ferdinand de Saussure
To do this, you can bring in nothing from the past. So the more psychology you've studied, the harder it will be to empathize. The… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Our evolutionary psychology preconditions us not to respond to threats which can be postponed until later. — Mark Lynas
I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of… — Oswald Spengler
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each… — Christian Lous Lange
Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market. — John Maynard Keynes
The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology. — Stanislav Grof
History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology. — Hippolyte Taine
Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul. — James Hillman
Positive psychology is to the corporate state what eugenics was to the Nazis — Chris Hedges
I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the… — Alan Greenspan
Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield… — Karl Abraham

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