Quotes of: James Keyword

When we forget our essential similarities, we forget how to get along, and that cannot but lead to prejudice, discrimination, and eventually, conflict.

James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

Obedience to Authority

The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.

Obedience to Authority

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

My Quest for Beauty

The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become.

Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential

Oh," He thought, "There is something with this girl." James thoughts regarding Kristen in "Top From The Bottom" a short story in Six Ways From Sunday.

Six Ways from Sunday

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

Social Learning Theory

Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?

Toward a Psychology of Being

You need to be doing fewer things for effect instead of doing more things with side effects

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

The Peter Principle

How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and of the female with females.

Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study

The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.

Personality Development Through Positive Thinking