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“Guilt is one burden that human beings can't bear alone. As soon as a crime is committed, there is a telephone call, or a confession to strangers.”

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“Yet in order to sustain his creed, contemporary man pays the price in a remarkable lack of introspection. He is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food–and, above all else, a large array of neuroses”

Psychology Theology Carl Jung

Book:Man and His Symbols

Source: Man and His Symbols

“si infuriava raramente per ciò che gli accadeva o gli era accaduto: i dolori passati e presenti erano qualcosa a cui si sforzava di non pensare, interrogativi per i quali non cercava una risposta. Sapeva già perché certe cose erano successe: erano successe perché se lo era meritato.”

Book:A Little Life

Source: A Little Life

“People say truth hurts. Truth doesn’t hurt. Truth heals. It only hurts those who resist it.”

Truth Psychology Truth Quotes

Author:Omar Delawar

“Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.”

War Happiness Joy

Book:The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Source: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

“Those who refuse to accept to break even, have accepted to lose it all.”

Business Psychology Strategy

Book:The Alley Cat And The Buffoon In The Suit

Source: The Alley Cat And The Buffoon In The Suit

“Those who cannot accept to break even have already accepted to lose it all.”

Business Psychology Strat

Book:The Alley Cat And The Buffoon In The Suit

Source: The Alley Cat And The Buffoon In The Suit

“...that there are conspiracies of fatal destiny, that a notion grows in a mind sometimes till it acquires an outward existence, an independent power of its own, and even a suggestive voice?”

Struggle Psychology Intrusive Thoughts

Book:The Secret Agent

Source: The Secret Agent

“We speak more honestly to AI.”

Truth Psychology Ai Self Reflection

Book:THE PSYCHOLOGY OF AI — VOLUME I: The Inner Human in the Age of Reflection

Source: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF AI — VOLUME I: The Inner Human in the Age of Reflection

“He was naïvely surprised that there should be opposition to his work. Like most men with a vision, a plan, a program or a remedy, he fondly imagined people to be intelligent enough to accept a good thing when it was offered to them, which was conclusive evidence that he knew little about the human race.”

Psychology Plans Following Opposition

Book:Black No More

Source: Black No More

“Neuroscience is Poetry (Sonnet 2717) Human brain is the most astonishing transdimensional engineering of Mother Nature, from outside it's just a 3 pound lump of goop, but inside, the very fabric of spacetime bursts into existence - we stretch time when we suffer, we compress time when we're joyful, we expand space in empathy, we collapse distance through memory - we invent gods when we feel helpless, we invent weapons when we're scared, we invent poetry when we're inspired, we invent politics when we want control - in short, the human brain is bigger on the inside than the outside.”

Consciousness Psychology Perception Neuroscience Evolutionary Psychology Psychiatry Cognition Human Brain Neurology Neurobiology

Book:Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace