"The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds."
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"The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's."
"public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self."
"So food is important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being. The more chemicals that are in our food and the more outside of the way it is intended by nature, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of."
"Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up."
"He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing."
"Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities."
"Everything that we put into our bodies should also be of nature, a part of that cycle of nature. Once you start messing with that - as I said, everything is connected. Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up."
"I have also been invited to talk to psychologists and psychoanalysts and I liked that very much. Because, they are the ones who are bringing a lot of very, you know, problematic ideas about sexuality and gender into psychiatric and psychological settings. And I like having some influence there."
"British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography."
"To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic."
"Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?"
"Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being."
"Through death you find yourself, because you no longer identify with form. You realize you are not the form with which you had identified neither the physical nor the psychological form of "me". That form goes. It dissolves and who you are beyond form emerges through the opening where that form was. One could almost say that every form of life obscures God."
"Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions."
"Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological."
"To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it."
"We are all born; some remain so."
"This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not diagnosed for myself!"
"Food is an important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being."