Psychology Quotes
+7The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
- Sigmund Freud
+3Depression is rage spread thin.
- George Santayana
+3Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
- G.K. Chesterton
+3Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
- Voltaire
+1Handwriting is autobiography.
- Carrie Latet
+1The sun is nature’s Prozac.
- Astrid Alauda
+1Thought is action in rehearsal.
- Sigmund Freud
+1Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
- Theodor Adorno
+1Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
- Erich Fromm
+1Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
- Aeschylus
+1All of us are much more human than otherwise.
- Harry Stack Sullivan
+1But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.
- Rachel Dratch
+1I don’t go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging.
- Peter O’Toole
+1Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.
- Hermann Ebbinghaus
+1Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
- Dodie Smith
+1If you just set people in motion they’ll heal themselves.
- Gabrielle Roth
+1Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
- Carl Jung
+1The only normal people are the one’s you don’t know very well.
- Alfred Adler
+1Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.
- Douglas Busch
+1Why do we pay for psychotherapy when massages cost half as much?
- Jason Love
+1But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
- Alan Watts
+1All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
- Henry Ellis
+1If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
+1If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abrahamm Maslow
+1Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.
- Mark Epstein
+1A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
- Joey Adams
+1Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?
- Michael Torke
+1Sure you can psychoanalyze! But as Baehr used to say, why bother to sort garbage?
- Martin H. Fischer
+1It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
- G.K. Chesterton
+1The self is now the sacred cow of American culture, self-esteem is sacrosanct.
- Robert Hughes
+1When I look at the world I’m pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
- Carl Rogers
+1People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding.
- Wilhelm Stekel
+1Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is a vice?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
+1A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they’re complex.
- S.N. Behrman
+1Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
+1After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.
- Philip Zimbardo
+1History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce’s view of Everyman as victim.
- Robert Anton Wilson
+1The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
- Paul Valéry
+1Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
- Mason Cooley
+1Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of ‘progress,’ but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
- Norman O. Brown
