Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification."
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Ivan Pavlov
Physiologist
"Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin."
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"If it's not one thing, it's your mother."
Ivan Pavlov
Physiologist
"It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at all."
Jean Piaget
Psychologist, Philosopher
"Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures."
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"Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes."
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"In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning."
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"You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you've got it, you ain't got it. No pussycats, please."
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"Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher."
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"The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations or his psychological health... We must find out what psychology might be if it could free itself from the stultifying effects of limited, pessimistic and stingy preoccupations with human nature."
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"The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses . . . Each generation . . . will have its creed."
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"History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim."
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"The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual"
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"Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire."
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"I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological, the objective and the subjective, are actually united, when the tormenting conflicts or contradictions between my consciousness and my body will have been factually resolved or discarded."
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"Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored."
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"I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology."
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"No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing."
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"I'm going to my psychoanalyst one more year, then I'm going to Lourdes."
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"A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter."
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"Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs."
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"The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power."
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"If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness."
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"Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets."
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"Idleness is the parent of psychology."
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