Quotes of: Norman Keyword

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.

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

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Without differentiating from parents or caretakers we may never succeed in living our own lives.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

We no longer get work out of our children; today we get meaning.

Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic + the Domestic

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

For once in his life, Norman has acted rather than gone to a meeting. And this is where it has landed him.

Light Shining In The Forest

He who licks his wounds cannot be affectionate

Of love and lust; on the psychoanalysis of romantic and sexual emotions; from the works of Theodor Reik

Of all mankind's unpleasant habits, sheer and willful cruelty is the most base, the least forgivable and, when carried to its extreme, perhaps the most horrific.

Mind In Chains

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

Don't try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not

Personality Development Through Positive Thinking

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

They stared into the distance as though they were being absorbed into an alternate space-time reality. Perhaps they were. But probably they already had been.

The Virgin of Hopeless Causes

empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.

Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty

There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of...

Aubrey de Grey

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.

The Trauma of Everyday Life

But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.

Finding Flow: The Psychology Of Engagement With Everyday Life

We're walking contradictions, seeking safety and predictability on one hand and thriving on diversity on the other.

Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic + the Domestic