Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Szasz

The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.

Thomas Nagel

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.

Timothy Leary

LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it.

Tom Robbins

Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no other reason than that most of us find acknowledging the unknowable and monitoring its intrusions upon the familiar and mundane more than a little embarrassing.

Stephen Covey

If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.

Val Kilmer

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

Steven Pinker

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

Steven Pinker

Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

Steven Pinker

There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?'

Steven Pinker

Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.

Steven Pinker

The elegant study... is consistent with the themes of modern cognitive neuroscience . Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in brain structure and function, including many psychological disorders and, presumably, genius. The study confirms that the brain is a modular system comprising multiple intelligences, mostly nonverbal.

Sun Ra

Well, actually, I'm a psychic being, and you know, we don't concern ourselves with being born; we concern ourselves with being eternal; we deal with the spirit.

Richard Moss

Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.

Samuel Alexander

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

T. J. Miller

If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples' lives for the better.

Sydney J. Harris

Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.

Susan Sontag

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

Umberto Eco

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

Sri Aurobindo

The psychic being and the mental being, Manomaya Purusha, are not the same. The psychic being is behind the mind, it is what the Westerners call the soul. It takes interest in the movements of the mind and the vital only when there is a harmony between these movements and the truth above. The knowledge of the psychic being is deeper.

Roger Sessions

Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we call psychosis is sometimes simply realism. But human beings can't live on realism alone.