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Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.
Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.
The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.
The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.
That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence.
The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.
People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.
The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.
These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.
Since we all have different cognitive profiles, educators should take those individual differences very seriously.
If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.
Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.
High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.
The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.
When it comes to giving advice, never do so unless you've first received a request in writing, signed by a lawyer.
All people ever say is: THANK YOU (a celebration of life) and PLEASE (an opportunity to make life more wonderful).
Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet.
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.
With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.
One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world.
One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.
And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.
In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.
So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.
However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.
It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.
The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.
Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.
I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.
My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.
Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.
People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.
Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.
When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.
As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep you eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole.
Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature.
Knowing that we can make a difference in this world is a great motivator. How can we know this and not be involved?