#psychology

I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian. ↗

— Keith Henson

#areas #called #deluded #enough #evolutionary

What, then, was the new strategy he proposed? More troops and more money. For him, any other option was unthinkable. It would mean he had made a colossal mistake. ↗

— Carol Tavris

#money

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#definite #knowledge #like #mind #psychology

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. ↗

— John Berger

#psychology #suffering #experience

Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology. ↗

— James Carville

#important #psychology

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not. ↗

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

#audience #comedy #comes #doing #experience

Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring. ↗

— Claire Danes

#afraid #art #art history #because #boring

We are gods with anuses. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#human-condition #humor #philosofy #psychology #religion

As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#psychoanalysis #psychology #sexuality #subconscious #yoga

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#history #human #human nature #keeps #nature