Contemporary Quote by James Hillman

No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization…

— Henry C. Link

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

— James Hillman

“Psychology is the science of mental life”

— William James

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

— Wolfgang Köhler

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

— Thomas Szasz

“Psychology is a subject of life, death, and in-betweens.”

— Santosh Kalwar

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds…

— Hermann Hesse

I reveled in political science and history of all kinds, and I felt for a long time that I had discovered all the secrets…

— Richard Cohen

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

— Samuel Alexander

Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are…

— Claude C. Hopkins

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

— Ruth Rendell

I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and…

— Jean Vanier