"The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology's failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context."

-- Naomi Weisstein

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“The natural purity of our mind is of no use to us if we are not aware of it, and if we do not integrate it with our moving mind. If we realize our innate purity, but only integrate with it from time to time, we are not totally awakened. Being in total integration all the time is final realization”
“The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.”
“The more attention that is drawn to any of the fighters, especially in a positive way, is good for the sport.”
“If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.”
“In a way, putting actors deep into this sort of complicated universe frees them from thinking about who they should be. They just are somebody.”

Source : "Michel Gondry on Mood Indigo, special effects, Jim Carrey, and Charlie Kaufman". Interview with A. A. Dowd, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2014.
“The burden of the incommunicable.”
“Do nothing to merely interest, assume or attract. This is not your province. Do only that wins the people you are after in the cheapest possible way”
“We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.”

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