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"The only way to create change in anyone`s psychology or belief system is to show them the consequences of their actions - or inaction."
"That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance."
"We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead."
"Age is not based on chronology, but psychology."
"It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought."
"Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves."
"The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life."
"The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics."
"We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win."
"Magick has many aspects, but primarily it acts as a dramatized system of “psychology"
"True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only."
"Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them."
"Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and ultimately rest on irrepresentable, transcendental factors, it is not only possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of the same thing."
"When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology."
"The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body"
"In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!"
"My psychology belongs to everyone."
"Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a deficiency they hope to remedy by ingesting masses of data."
"Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man."