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Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own
It doesn't matter whether one uses God or doesn't. What matters is which experience a person has.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Mercy is a source of life because we breathe our own spirits through it into the lives of others.
Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.
We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.
Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.
The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past.
There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.
We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential that we prepare them for it.
We have been the benefactors of our cultural heritage and the victims of our cultural narrowness.
Solving a problem in a hundred years is, practically speaking, the same as not solving it at all.
Take a risk a day - one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it.
There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival.
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.
Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills
To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.
People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.
For the most part, biophiliacs,lovers of life, are found among simple people, without pretensions.
I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.
I see socialism in the direction, of management, of enterprise, by all who work in the enterprise.
Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.
Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form.
The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.
Women do not dress specifically for men or against other women. They dress for their subconscious.
When we have our consciousness on needs, images come to us, naturally, of how to meet those needs.
Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted.
I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.
In a carefully prepared, loving LSD session, a woman will inevitably have several hundred orgasms.
The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.
If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.
It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
Each and every one of us holds the amazing power to modify our life at any time we decide to do so.
In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.