Quotes of: Psychology Keyword

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

Stanley Fish

[Man] literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, personal preoccupations so far removed from the reality of his situation that they are forms of madness, but madness all the same.

The Denial of Death

Reality, in its essence, consists not of particles interacting pointlessly in an independent physical plane, but rather of values, psychological elements of mind, made real.

Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works

Throughout history we humans have struggled to find meaning in the awesome contradiction of our human condition. Neither philosophy, nor psychology nor biology has, until now, been able to provide the truthful explanation.

FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition

The paradox is that, while a concern with past and future is obviously central to psychological functioning, to behave as though one were indeed the past or future, as many do, pollutes the lively possibilities of existence.

Gestalt Therapy Integrated: Contours of Theory & Practice

Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and ...

David Gemmell

I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm...

Criss Angel

I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)

after the quake

Modern western man has some basic misconceptions about the nature of happiness. The origin of the word is instructive: happiness stems from the root verb to happen, which implies that our happiness is what happens.

He: Understanding Masculine Psychology

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter.

Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Differentiating from parental introjects and psychological defences based on the emotional pain of childhood is essential not only for neurotic or seriously disturbed individuals; it is a central developmental issue in every person’s life.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

Presently the newly awakened psychology will gradually accomplish what pure religious devotion might have done: throw out Paul, and let Jesus in!

De Mysteriën van Jezus in ons Leven

Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature's way

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

Reform as such is inherently reactionary and perpetuates psychological dependence on the enemy,while confusing the true class contradictions between ourselves and the enemy.

Message To The Black Movement: A Political Statement From The Black Underground

In summing up Lawrence's earlier novels and in anticipating the later, Sons and Lovers is of central importance to the whole Lawrence canon because it contains the psychological basis of much of the later doctrine.

The Novels of D. H. Lawrence: A Search for Integration

Sam believes now that people repeatedly collide with each other swiftly, brutally – not to produce children but to shatter their sense of self, and be thrust into a creative space beyond reason, where anything can happen. Only through the destructi...

The Lava in My Bones

Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.

Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

Psychology either tends to glorify human beings or trivialize them, leaving out the complexity of the human soul and the demands of God.

Loving God with All Your Mind: Thinking as a Christian in a Postmodern World

Many of the pains and efforts taken to deal with the contemporary marriage are dominated by considerations of well-being, happiness, and biology. This corresponds to the position of contemporary psychology, which distinguishes itself through a deep s...

Marriage: Dead or Alive