Quotes about psycho
psychosis neurosis sin
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers. Robert A. Heinlein
psychological faster contracts
Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish. Robert A. Heinlein
psychology matter makers
No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers. Robert A. Heinlein
psychosis doubt neurosis
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. Thomas Szasz
psychology biographies autobiography
There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. Thomas Szasz
psychosis doubt neurosis
The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions. Thomas Szasz
psychology branches action
I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology. Thomas Nagel
psychosis people drug
LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it. Timothy Leary
psychology serial-killer want
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. Val Kilmer
psychology four human-nature
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. Steven Pinker
psychology evolution indispensable
Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology. Steven Pinker
psychology criticism trying
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
psychology mind fabric
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
psychological-disorders brain genius
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. Steven Pinker
psychological-health doubt mature
Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else. Richard Moss
psychology deals whole
Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life. Samuel Alexander
psychologist ifs
If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples' lives for the better. T. J. Miller
psychology criticism important
The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature. Umberto Eco
psychosis needs alive
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. Ursula K. Le Guin