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Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
Paul Valery
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
The chief difficulty for those who begin the study of scientific psychology is that all men indulge in popular 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.
The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.
The brain is wider than the sky.
Great spirits have often overcome violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The happiness of of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Life can show up no other way than that way in which you perceive it.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, ‘describing things which everyone knows in language which no one understands’.
Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other.
It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.
What you are will show in what you do.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
Introspection is always retrospection.
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Learn one way; react. Learn many ways; understand.
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
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.
Idleness is the parent of psychology.