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I'm one of the best-loved psychologists in the United States, but I'm also probably the most hated one.
The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.
The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.
Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.
You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.
Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.
Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure.
Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them
If we want to make meetings productive, we need to keep track of those whose requests are on the table.
Miracles can happen when we can keep our consciousness away from analyzing and classifying one another.
What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five?
Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.
... people notice differences and expect every difference in form to convey some difference in meaning.
A successful learner, . . . must be constrained to draw some conclusions from the input and not others.
Paris Hilton, it turns out, is related to fellow celebrity jailbirds Zsa Zsa Gabor and G. Gordon Liddy.
By reeducating the mind, you can accept fear as simply a fact of life rather than a barrier to success.
There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them
Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.
LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all.
A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world.
An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.
Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.
People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.
The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.
Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.
Holding back our thoughts, feelings and behaviors can place people at risk for minor and major diseases.
Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
I know that I am a part of something so tremendous, so great, that, if for this reason only, it is holy.
Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.
When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.
Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in.
We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships.
Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist.
For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.
Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.
The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.
The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.
The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged
Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.
Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.