“Each of us has a hundred suppressed potential selves which never let us forget that no matter how mightily we step along the narrow single path of our personality, our deepest desire is to be multiple: to play many roles” Psychology Author:Luke Rhinehart
“For ethical reasons we aren’t allowed to ask subjects to do anything which they or their society consider unethical. The problem to which I was devoting my life—how much a human being can be changed—could never be touched by scientists, since the bone ingredient of all men is their resistance to change” Psychology Book:The Dice Man Source: The Dice Man
“My theory is that we all have minority impules which are stifled by the normal personality and rarely break free into action. The minority impulses are the Negroes of the personality. They have not enjoyed freedom since the personality was founded; they have become the invisible men. We refuse to recognize that a minority impulse is a potential full man, and that until he is granted the same opportunity for development as the major conventional selves, the personality in which he lives will be divided, subject to tensions which lead to periodic explosions and riots” Psychology Author:Luke Rhinehart
“Now I must have the willpower to do it.’ That’s bad. The illusion that an ego controls or has ‘willpower’ must be abandoned” MotivationPsychology Book:The Dice Man Source: The Dice Man
“I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.” WorldSelfFacesLiteratureAcceptingPsychologyLimitationHatedRefusalRomanticismNeurosis Book:The Dice Man Source: The Dice Man
