"People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street."
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"With regard to how I chose Pacifica, my story is interesting. I did not go to Pacifica to specifically become a therapist. I went to Pacifica to study Jungian psychology and archetypes and mythology and there were many different programs there."
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"It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature."
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"It's roughly the case that if systems become too complex to study in sufficient depth, physics hands them over to chemistry, then to biology, then experimental psychology, and finally on to history. Roughly. These are tendencies, and they tend to distinguish roughly between hard and soft sciences."
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"Peter Kropotkin was surely on the left. He was one of the founders of what is now called 'sociobiology' or 'evolutionary psychology' with his book Mutual Aid, arguing that human nature had evolved in ways conducive to the communitarian anarchism that he espoused."
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"I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to the, obviously, the individual."
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"Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period."
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"The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty itself."
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"The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it."
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"Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write about in books. But his judgment went through me like a sword and questioned my very right to exist. And it was true, I had always realized it; I hadn't the right to exist. I had appeared by chance, I existed like a stone, a plant or a microbe. My life put out feelers towards small pleasures in every direction. Sometimes it sent out vague signals; at other times I felt nothing more than a harmless buzzing."
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"You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it."
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"Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity."
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"I'd always been interested in psychology."
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"If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually."
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