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B. F. Skinner Psychologist, Behaviorist
Psychology

"Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. It enslaves him almost before he has tasted freedom. The 'ologies' will tell you how its done Theology calls it building a conscience or developing a spirit of selflessness. Psychology calls it the growth of the superego. Considering how long society has been at it, you'd expect a better job. But the campaigns have been badly planned and the victory has never been secured."

Long Jobs Psychology
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
Psychology

"Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity."

Psychology Recognition Astrology
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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
Psychology

"There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick."

People Thinking Psychology
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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Psychology

"If you cannot be at ease with yourself when alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. You can be sure that the unease will then reappear in some other form within the relationship, and you will probably hold your partner responsible for it."

Spiritual Psychology Cover Ups
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
Psychology

"No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind."

Thinking Religious Psychology
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
Psychology

"The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mover, or as object to subject, because the determining factors that radiate outward from the self surround the ego on all sides and are therefore supraordinate to it. The self, like the unconscious, as an a priori existent out of which the ego evolves. It is, so to speak, an unconscious prefiguration of the ego. It is not I who create myself; rather, I happen to myself."

Self Ego Psychology
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
Psychology

"The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness."

Self Ego Psychology
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Crystal Reed Actress
Psychology

"Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor."

Mind College Psychology
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
Psychology

"Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror"

Psychology Terror Refuge
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Abraham Maslow Psychologist
Psychology

"What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily."

Average Normal Psychology
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