Interpretation Quote by Hermann Hesse

Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

— James Hillman

“At least descriptive psychology is probably, taken as a whole, a form of anthropomorphism, a nibbling at our own limits.”

— Franz Kafka

“There is no formula that can deliver all truth, all harmony, all simplicity. No Theory of Everything can ever provide total insight. For, to…

— John D. Barrow

“The whole architecture of the notions of psychology... as differentiations of one sole and massive adhesion to being which is the flesh ...There is…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the facts in…

— Herbert Marcuse

“Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology.”

— Wolfgang Köhler

“One is not likely to learn much about human beings, by way of psychoanalysis or otherwise, if one adheres unwaveringly to a theory, no…

— Miltiades Zaphiropoulous

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

— Ruth Hubbard

Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences

— William James

“Mythology, in other words, is psychology misread as biography, history, and cosmology.”

— Joseph Campbell

All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.

— Lucy Grealy