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source: "The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, vol. 111". Journal by Sydney Smith, Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, William Empson, Macvey Napier, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Henry Reeve, Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot (Hon.), Harold Cox, p. 521, 1860.

topic: Men, Study, Psychological, Physiological

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

- Robert Byrd

source: Sen. Robert C. Byrd (2008). “Letter to a New President: Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader”, p.84, Macmillan

topic: Law, Sides, Psychological, Legality

Empathy involves the inner experience of sharing in and comprehending the momentary psychological state of another person.

- Roy Schafer

topic: Empathy, Psychological, States, Comprehending

The exterior image of a human being and the diverse circumstances that surround him are the exact result of his interior image and of his psychological processes.

- Samael Aun Weor

topic: Psychological, Process, Results, Interiors

In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

- Sigmund Freud

topic: Psychological, Sexuality, Found, Masculinity

You marry at the level of your own psychological health.

- Sonia Friedman

topic: Psychological, Psychological Health

I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.

- Sophia Bush

topic: Boards, Horror, Psychological, Psychological Thrillers

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

- Steve Martin

topic: Way, Psychological

She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.

- Steve Martin

topic: Care, Warfare, Psychological, Psychological Warfare

If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.

- Thomas Nagel

topic: Determined, Psychological, Feels, Trapped

I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.

- Ti-Grace Atkinson

source: Ti-Grace Atkinson (1974). “Amazon odyssey”

topic: Love Is, Feminist, Psychological, Radical Feminist

The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy.

- Tom Platz

topic: Bodybuilding, Tools, Psychological, Atrophy

Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the less well it performs. When this happens in a psychological experiment, it is interesting. When it happens in traffic, it can be fatal.

- Tom Vanderbilt

topic: Interesting, Attention, Psychological

Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero.

- Velupillai Prabhakaran

topic: Hero, Desire, Psychological

There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

- Wilhelm Wundt

source: Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

topic: Psychology, Failing, Psychological

Well my motto was "Never Monologue a Clegane", because Beric Dondarrion and Thoros were messing around with The Hound and Beric essentially got killed, even though he got to come back, and then the monologue is just a foolish thing to do. But it's also psychological state of mind, he can't get over his sister.

- Alex Graves

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Mind, Psychological, Foolish

I don't watch things like Jeepers Creepers or Final Destination 53 Â½. I really like more of the psychological thrillers.

- Alexandra Breckenridge

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Watches, Finals, Psychological, Creepers, Final Destination

Although I studied, I have never been taught paintingbecause I possess in my psychological makeup a peculiarity that resents any outside interference.

- Amrita Sher-Gil

topic: Makeup, Taught, Psychological

I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.

- Barbara Ess

topic: Real, Trying, Psychological

The "biggest" poems I ever made are based on the psychological principal of the "Johari Window:" what the self freely shares with others; what the self hides from others; what others hide from the self; and what is unknown to the self and others.

- Denise Duhamel

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Self, Window, Psychological

One of the great dangers of transformational work is that the ego attempts to sidestep deep psychological work by leaping into the transcendent too soon. This is because the ego always fancies itself much more 'advanced' than it actually is.

- Don Richard Riso

source: Don Richard Riso, Russ Hudson (1999). “The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types”, Bantam

topic: Ego, Fancy, Psychological

The paradox is that, while a concern with past and future is obviously central to psychological functioning, to behave as though one were indeed in the past or future, as many do, pollutes the lively possibilities of existence.

- Erving Polster

source: Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”

topic: Past, Psychological, Paradox

I don't really think there's a need to have a men's line. I think a lot of the men's lines just take the products for women and put them in different containers. It's all psychological.

- Fredric Brandt

topic: Thinking, Different, Psychological

Since functional brain imaging first emerged, we have learned that there aren't very many brain regions uniquely responsible for specific tasks; most complex tasks engage many if not all of the brain's major networks. So it is fairly hard to make general psychological inferences just from brain data.

- Joshua Greene

source: Source: www.slate.com

topic: Brain, Psychological, Responsible

The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.

- Larry Clark

topic: Psychological Needs, Needs, Psychological

According to the norms of the hijras community, it's not necessary that one be castrated. Castration is your choice. If you do it, testosterone doesn't build up, femininity comes, but I have always said that castration is not the right way. A person should go for complete sexual reassignment surgery, hormone therapy, psychological counseling.

- Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Community, Choices, Psychological, Counseling

Whatever else we may say about sex, it is at least as much a social and psychological phenomenon as it is a biological one.

- Lillian B. Rubin

topic: Sex, May, Psychological

A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.

- Maureen O'Hara

topic: Empathy, Healthy, Psychological, Parts Of A Whole

I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.

- Stefan Heym

topic: War, World, Psychological, Psychological Warfare

Donald Trump thinks all press is good press. And I think he believes that he's putting everybody on a psychological disadvantage.

- Wendy Sherman

topic: Believe, Thinking, Psychological

I have made it a habit not to speculate over the psychological state of our elected leaders.

- Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

topic: Leader, Psychological, Habit, Elected Leaders

There's a lot of psychological material that you inherit from your family.

- Zoe Leonard

topic: Psychological, Our Family, Materials

There's not a whole lot of similarity between the two societies, Russian and American. There are similarities behind psychological forces. One thing we can learn is that things can change pretty fast. And this idea that we know who we are and that things can only get so bad in this country - that's wrong.

- Masha Gessen

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Country, Psychological, Similarity

One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.

- Chris Argyris

source: Chris Argyris, Donald A. Schön (1974). “Theory in practice: increasing professional effectiveness”, Jossey-Bass

topic: Intellectual, Use, Psychological

Our balanced budget has an important psychological function. It is a signal that we can't continue to constantly take on debt.

- Wolfgang Schauble

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Important, Debt, Psychological, Balanced Budget

The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?

- Leo Tolstoy

source: Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Novels of Leo Tolstoy in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilyich... (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.105, e-artnow

topic: Lying, Lines, Psychological

We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in the psychological need to satisfy reasonable expectations.

- Felix Frankfurter

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Expectations, Important, Psychological

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.

- Frank Herbert

source: Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.431, Penguin

topic: Tone, Comedy, Psychological

Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

- Alasdair MacIntyre

source: Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.35, A&C Black

topic: Effectiveness, Psychological, Has Beens

The 3 key components for success are as follows: Psychological Preparedness Physical Conditioning Mental Toughness

- Chuck Norris

topic: Keys, Mental Toughness, Psychological, Components

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

topic: Law, Psychological, Procedures

Psychological knowledge has made us dull.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

source: Ramesh Grover, Jiddu Krishnamurti, David Bohm (2006). “Kalachakra Meditations: Based on the Discussions Between J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm in the Ending of Time”

topic: Dull, Psychological, Made

Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

source: Jiddu Krishnamurti's first public talk in Ojai, California, April 1, 1980.

topic: Mind, Problem, Psychological, Psychological Problems

It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Armor, Way, Psychological

I really enjoy the experience of playing humans. The psychological game is so much more important.

- Magnus Carlsen

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: Games, Important, Psychological

A fight is mental, not just physical and psychological warfare is absolutely part of that.

- Conor McGregor

source: Source: www.askmen.com

topic: Fighting, Warfare, Psychological, Psychological Warfare

To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.

- Cynthia Ozick

source: Cynthia Ozick (1996). “A Cynthia Ozick Reader”, p.278, Indiana University Press

topic: Distance, Artist, Psychological

Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

topic: Fashion, Together, Psychological, Linked

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

- R. D. Laing

topic: Enlightenment, Psychological, Breakthrough

What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession.

- R. D. Laing

topic: Suicide, Wonder, Psychological, Psychiatric

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

- George Santayana

source: George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.533, Indiana University Press

topic: Elude, Classic, Psychological

When I was in school, I was beaten every 30 minutes. It never did me any harm except for some psychological mal-adjustments and blurred vision.

- John Cleese

topic: School, Vision, Psychological

The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.

- Marilyn vos Savant

topic: Age, Problem, Psychological, Psychological Problems

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Insanity, Balance, Psychological

Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

topic: Men, Orbs, Psychological, Repelling

It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.

- John Green

source: John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.101, A&C Black

topic: Feelings, Listening, Psychological

To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

- Anne Michaels

source: Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.20, Emblem Editions

topic: Hiding, Psychological, Intimate, Hiding Place

The ultimate manipulation is to kill someone, and sociopathy is murderous in a psychological sense - there's a kind of soul-murder going on.

- Martha Stout

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Manipulation, Kind, Psychological

I think that [Paul] Bloom's approach - and others who take it - is not so much that there is a precise genetic basis to faith. But there is a genetic basis to a psychological predisposition that manifests itself as faith and religion under the right conditions.

- Richard Dawkins

source: Source: newrepublic.com

topic: Thinking, Psychological, Approach

Getting control of stuff makes people feel like they have more control over their lives - maybe irrationally, but it's one of these psychological truths.

- Gretchen Rubin

source: Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

topic: People, Stuff, Psychological

A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.

- John Stuart Mill

topic: Psychological, Difficulty, Impossibility

Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.

- Arthur C. Clarke

source: "The Fountains of Paradise". Book by Arthur C. Clarke (Chapter 35: Starglider Plus Eighty, p. 190), 1979.

topic: Belief, Psychological, Artifacts

You should not take the content of your intuitive response as evidence until you have submitted your psychological reaction to what I call cognitive psychotherapy. You should do what you can to learn as much as possible about the origin of your reaction.

- Torbjorn Tannsjo

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Psychological, Reactions, Should

Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.

- Tucker Max

topic: People, Defense, Psychological

The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not seek security and fulfillment in ourselves.

- Jonathan Haidt

source: Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.130, Basic Books

topic: Attachment, Parent, Psychological

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

- Denis Diderot

topic: Mad, Psychological, Harm, Being Mad

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

- Joni Mitchell

source: "Midnight and Cerulean: The Joni Mitchell Blues" by Kristen Bialik, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.

topic: Eye, Ascent, Psychological, Descent, Public Eye

Strictly speaking, the mass, as a psychological fact, can be defined without waiting for individuals to appear in mass formation. In the presence of one individual we can decide whether he is "mass" or not. The mass is all that which sets no value on itself good or ill based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everybody," and nevertheless is not concerned about it; is, in fact, quite happy to feel itself as one with everybody else.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

source: "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter I: "The Coming Of The Masses", 1929.

topic: Waiting, Facts, Psychological

Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Psychological, Stink, Faster

Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system

- Haruki Murakami

source: FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 20, 2012

topic: Men, Differences, Psychological, Differences Between Man And Woman

I have also been invited to talk to psychologists and psychoanalysts and I liked that very much. Because, they are the ones who are bringing a lot of very, you know, problematic ideas about sexuality and gender into psychiatric and psychological settings. And I like having some influence there.

- Judith Butler

source: Source: ilga.org

topic: Ideas, Influence, Psychological

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Maturity, Psychological, Permission, Irresponsibility, Combining

In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.

- E. O. Wilson

topic: Virtue, Psychological

Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.90, Penguin

topic: Psychological, Form

Through death you find yourself, because you no longer identify with form. You realize you are not the form with which you had identified neither the physical nor the psychological form of "me". That form goes. It dissolves and who you are beyond form emerges through the opening where that form was. One could almost say that every form of life obscures God.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Source: www.soulwise.net

topic: Finding Yourself, Realizing, Psychological

What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.

- Kathy Lette

topic: Dysfunction, Psychological, Huge

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

- Edmund Burke

source: Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

topic: Independence, Psychological, Anxious

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

- William James

source: William James (1984). “Psychology, Briefer Course”, p.391, Harvard University Press

topic: Free Will, Psychological

Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity?

- Kevin Gates

topic: Breathing, Important, Psychological, Physical Activity

We are all born; some remain so.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Psychological, Born

For me, the thing that I love about the show is the psychological thriller aspect of it. It's frightening and it's scary, and there are all these things that happen. You have these really dramatic scenes, and then you get in a scene with him and I can't tell you how many times I would start cracking up.

- Kyra Zagorsky

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Scary, Dramatic, Psychological, Cracking Up, Psychological Thrillers

Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions.

- Emma Goldman

source: "Living My Life". Book by Emma Goldman, p. 402, 1931.

topic: Ideas, Needs, Psychological

So food is important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being. The more chemicals that are in our food and the more outside of the way it is intended by nature, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of.

- Ziggy Marley

topic: Important, Way, Psychological

Everything that we put into our bodies should also be of nature, a part of that cycle of nature. Once you start messing with that - as I said, everything is connected. Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.

- Ziggy Marley

topic: Body, Psychological, Should, Messed Up

Food is an important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being.

- Ziggy Marley

topic: Important, Psychological, Well Being

The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.

- Carl Jung

topic: Development, Psychological, Natural, Psychological Development

Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life.

- Carl Jung

topic: Psychological, Type, Static, Course Of Life

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.

- Carl Jung

source: Carl Gustav Jung (1989). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion”

topic: Sound, Psychological, Metaphysical, Westerners

Markets also have a very bad psychological effect. They drive people to a conception of themselves and society in which you're only after your own good, not the good of others and that's extremely harmful.

- Noam Chomsky

source: "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

topic: People, Psychological, Effects

This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not diagnosed for myself!

- Shirley Geok-lin Lim

source: Source: www.oxfordjournals.org

topic: Block, Irony, Psychological

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

- Sigmund Freud

topic: Self, Psychological, Constructs

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.184, Oxford University Press on Demand

topic: Silence, Moments, Psychological

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