"Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously."
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"What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings."
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"Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses."
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"The universe stands aside for those people who know where they are going."
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"Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun."
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"Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology."
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"The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require."
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"There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action."
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"The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time."
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"We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life."
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"Now he's miserable and depressed."
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"The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs."
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"Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure."
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"Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire."
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"The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue."
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"I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me."
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"A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that."
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"I used to teach psychology, and I don't do that anymore. I teach spirituality. And the way that I teach now is just by listening. I listen a lot."
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"In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are."
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"Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves."
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