Psychology Quotes

“Play is the brain's favorite way of learning.”

“The study of the development of the libido from its earliest beginnings has done more for the elucidation of the psychoneuroses than any other line of psycho-analytic investigation.”

“Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment.”

“Emotion is a weakness.”

“The anal character is distinguished by a special combination of three qualities: orderliness, parsimony, and obstinacy.”

“The mind always functions as a whole. Whatever is done by any of its faculties, is done by the whole mind.”

“Bullying is not about conflict. It's about contempt.”

“The hurried child is a stressed child.”

“My demons are my companions, I get along with them.”

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”

“One can say that in the last resort the repressed is nothing but the undeveloped.”

“Familiarity is the reassurance that change has not taken place.”

“The repressed and the undeveloped are two different things.”

“The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.”

“If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it.”

“Even the intelligent investor is likely to need considerable willpower to keep from following the crowd.”

“I have always been interested in the fragility of madness, the fragility of the human being.”

“All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.”

“Thought is the rehearsal of action.”

“A part of the libido which has been ‘disappointed’ retreats to a more primitive stage of development.”