“Klinik psikologların çoğu hastalarının mevcut durumları ile geçmiş yaşantılarını irdeleyerek, hastanın belli bir şekilde davranmasına veya düşünmesine neden olabilecek geçmişe ait etkileri anlamaya çalışırlar. Klinik psikologlar hastalarının vaka öykülerini alırken onların geçirdikleri evreleri yeniden oluştururlar ve süreç içerisinde şimdiki davranışı açıklayabilirler.”
Source: A History of Modern Psychology 3e
“Because you lack contentment which comes naturally with being, there are sentiments, so you have something to hold on to, like any fiction.”
“The thing that makes me happy is that I know that on Mars, two hundred years from now, my books are going to be read. They’ll be up on dead Mars with no atmosphere. And late at night, with a flashlight, some little boy is going to peek under the covers and read The Martian Chronicles on Mars.”
Source: The Martian Chronicles
“It is change that contains vital information, not steady states. Human beings, however, take adaptation to cognitive extremes. We don't just habituate, we recalibrate. We create for ourselves a world of targets, and each time we hit one we replace it with another.”
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“Every so often, a heartwarming news story tells of a shipwrecked sailor who was on the verge of drowning in a turbulent sea. Suddenly, a dolphin popped up at his side and, gently but firmly, nudged the swimmer safely to shore. It is tempting to conclude that dolphins must really like human beings, enough to save us from drowning. But wait—are dolphins aware that humans don't swim as well as they do? Are they actually intending to be helpful? To answer that question, we would need to know how many shipwrecked sailors have been gently nudged further out to sea by dolphins, there to drown and never be heard from again. We don't know about those cases, because the swimmers don't live to tell us about their evil-dolphin experiences. If we had that information, we might conclude that dolphins are neither benevolent nor evil; they are just being playful.”
Source: Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
“Most people don’t really understand why live makes us vulnerable, or open. It’s because love, to be fully expressed and through your being, begins to eliminate all the fears, all the insecurities and all the anxieties that are inconsistent with itself.”
Source: Sex and Psychic Energy
“Most people don’t really understand why love makes us vulnerable, or open. It’s because love, to be fully expressed and through your being, begins to eliminate all the fears, all the insecurities and all the anxieties that are inconsistent with itself.”
Source: Sex and Psychic Energy
“...you don't really have to be good at everything. Life offers so many chances to use one tool instead of another, ond often you can use a strength to get around a weakness.”
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“Jer šta se krije iza fanatične maske nesrećnog čoveka? Strah i osećanje velike slabosti, nesigurnost i potreba za natkompenzacijom osećanja inferiornosti (psihijatrijskim rečnikom, među fanaticima mnogo je neurotičara, psihopata i psihotičara) i, što je najgore, nevera u veru ili ideju koju ovakav čovek fanatično zastupa; u fanatika , najzad, jača bude vera u demonsku, nego u Božiju moć.”
Source: 50 pitanja i 50 odgovora iz hrišćansko-psihoterapeutske prakse
“I za kraj, još jedna bitna razlika između revnosnog i fanatičnog čoveka: revnostan čovek celog života preobražava sebe, fanatičan - umesto ovakvog doživotnog, nesumnjivo trudnog napora - hoće da preobrazi druge.”
Source: 50 pitanja i 50 odgovora iz hrišćansko-psihoterapeutske prakse