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The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.
The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon.
The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.
I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.
It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.
Some achieve a reputation for great successes when in fact all they have done is take chances that reasonable people wouldn't take.
In the dream, sheltered from the noise, the subject expressed a judgment much more on the mark than that manifested in wakefulness.
Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.
Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
People are wrong when they say that everything should be more diverse, even, say, rock bands. It's an error, an overgeneralization.
Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.
Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling.
What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.
Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact.
Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.
Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.
What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.
Extraterrestrial intelligence could have sent DNA-seed packets out through space to plant life on hospitable planets such as earth.
If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.
Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.
Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn’t predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did.
If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.
The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.
From his first hours as pope, Francis has re-enacted or spoken of the great pastoral transformation of Vatican II as his own agenda.
I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.
What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.
The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.
Emotion is not opposed to reason. Emotions guide and manage thought in fundamental ways and complement the deficiencies of thinking.
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge.
I think that if you were to probe a lot of people's religious opinions, they would not be as religious as the numbers would suggest.
We want to be in open, loving communion with each other and our greatest fear is intimacy. That it won't work and we'll be rejected.
It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion.
Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.
People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities.
It's so hard sometimes, living in this world. But I know from experience, it can always get better if you're willing to ask for help.
To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.
Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.
Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering.
Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.