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“One of the great unresolved psychological enigmas of the modern western world is the question of what or who has persuaded us to accept as virtually axiomatic a self-view and a world-view that demand we reject out of hand the wisdom and vision of our major philosophers and poets in order to imprison our thought and our very selves in the materialist, mechanical and dogmatic torture-chamber devised by purely quantitative and third-rate scientific minds.”

Source: Human image, world image: the death and resurrection of sacred cosmology

“I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.”

Thinking Home Journey Travel Elements Majors Psychological

Author:David Attenborough

“From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."”

May Race Mankind Behavior Majors Psychological Vacuums Destroyers

Book:I Am a Cat

Source: I Am a Cat

“For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication of copies, overwhelmingly plays the major role in shaping all or at least most of the contents of culture. Evolved domain-specific psychological dispositions, if there are any, should be at most a relatively minor factor that could be considered part of background conditions.”

Ifs Should Play Culture Roles Cases Conditions Majors Research Backgrounds Psychological Factors Reasonable Copies Minors Disposition Domain Programmes Copying Multiplication

Author:Dan Sperber

“The sort of resilient personality who can bounce back quickly after a major setback, does so largely because they quickly generate positive emotions which serve as a physical and psychological antidote to bad news.”

Doe Emotion Personality Majors News Psychological Antidote Setback Bad News Resilient Bounce Positive Emotions

Author:Nick Baylis

“Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn very deeply into the area of their trouble. They want to know more than their doctor. That's a curious thing, and not at all the way it used to be.”

People Knows Way Want Used Study Trouble Majors Areas Doctors Psychological Used To Be Curious Symptoms Very Deep

Author:James Hillman