Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noah Baumbach

Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology.

Terence McKenna

Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.

Terence McKenna

Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.

Terence McKenna

Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

Terence McKenna

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

Terence McKenna

The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?

Simon Newcomb

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

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.

Wilhelm Wundt

Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.

Wilhelm Wundt

We know, from ordinary life, that we are not able to direct our attention perfectly steadily and uniformly to one and the same object... At times the attention turns towards the object most intensely, and at times the energy flags.

Wilhelm Wundt

Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.

Wilhelm Wundt

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

Wilhelm Wundt

Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.

Wilhelm Wundt

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

Wilhelm Wundt

There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

Wilhelm Wundt

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.

William S. Burroughs

If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.

William James

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

Will Self

I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.

Warren Farrell

For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.

Ziggy Marley

Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.

Ziggy Marley

I'm my own psychologist.

Yusef Komunyakaa

I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.