![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.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-self-is-defined-psychologically-as-the-psychic-totality-of-the-individual-an.jpg)
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self words-of-wisdom crowns
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! Charles Dickens
self cells knaves
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave! Charles Caleb Colton
self abuse doe
He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.
self order should
Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.
self-esteem war loser
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
selfish character men
Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.
selfish heart character
Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.
self ecosystems space
I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life. Charles Stross
self trouble needed
What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self. Charles Spurgeon
psychics laughing quacks
I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics. Dick Cavett
psychics discounts hives
Do not discount the psychic warmth of the hive. Chang-Rae Lee
psychics boredom evil
It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense. Anton Chekhov
psychics maintenance denial
To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society. bell hooks
psychics
I'm not psychic myself. Dionne Warwick
psychics wonderful georgians
Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things.
psychics doe lost
It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires Clarissa Pinkola Estes
psychics nurture
Nurture is like psychic Wheaties.
psychics healthy endurance
Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength.
psychology interest physiotherapy
I'd always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology. Bob Paisley
psychology important understood
Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood. David Dreman
psychology culture break
It was a culture that business is something bad - it was a leftist-oriented psychology. We have to break this. We are pro-business. Antonis Samaras
psychology movement crowds
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology. Bernard Baruch
psychology training first-impression
I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. Billy Zane
psychology use wonderful
I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it's graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It's a wonderful thing. Barbra Streisand
psychology privilege stuck
A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that. Ariel Gore
psychology important chess
Psychology is the most important factor in chess. Alexander Alekhine
psychology special violence
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence. Ben Elton