“Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons.” KnowsMenWorldSeemsBeliefSidesPsychologyModernJudgmentInjusticeContraryPoisonLiberalismAncestorConsideringModern WorldConservatismDescendantsTurned OffContrary To Popular Belief Author:Criss Jami
“For Jews, the Messiah has never come; for Christians, He has come but once; for modern man, He appears and disappears with increasing rapidity. The saviors of modern man, the "scientists" who promise salvation through the "discoveries" of ethology and sociology, psychology and psychiatry, and all the other bogus religions, issue forth periodically, as if selected by some Messiah-of-the-Month Club.” IfsMenChristianIssuesPsychologyModernMonthsPromiseDiscoveryScientistSalvationJewClubsDisappearSaviorSociologyPsychiatrySelectedMessiahModern Man Author:Thomas Szasz
“It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats” PeopleStudyPsychologyModernEasierBehaviorCommitmentFewerRatsModern Psychology Book:The decline and fall of science Source: The decline and fall of science
“I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology.... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called 'education.' Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part.... It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.” IfsThinkingMayHas BeensStatesPlayAbleYoungGrowthPsychologyModernSubjectsMassImportanceMethodPressesPatientRadioPropagandaCinemaEquipmentInfluentialRadio PlaysScience And Society Book:The Impact of Science On Society Source: The Impact of Science On Society
“We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in personal introspection. We have enough common psychology under our belts to know that psychology doesn't explain or heal everything and that it isn't the fulfillment of awareness, but its beginning. We are undergoing a shift in paradigms in which we are trying to develop new models for humanness and human responsibility. This is no small task. Our individual lives are placed under increasing pressure to respond adequately to both inner and outer change.” PeopleKnowsWritingTryingHumansEnoughIndividualCommonResponsibilityPsychologyModernAwarenessModelsTasksIncreasePressureHealFulfillmentIntrospectionBeltsParadigmRenaissanceModern SocietyHumannessIndividual LifeJournalingPersonal Writing Author:Christina Baldwin
“Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.” ShouldWarTeachPracticePsychologyTeacherModernTheoryDemandValuableSupplementsBest TeacherNo WarTheory And PracticeModern Psychology Author:Charles Kettering
“No other book has been so chopped, knifed, sifted, scrutinized, and vilified. What book on philosophy or religion or psychology or belles lettres of classical or modern times has been subject to such a mass attack as the Bible? With such venom and skepticism? With such thoroughness and erudition? Upon every chapter, line and tenet?” Has BeensBookPhilosophyLinesPsychologyModernSubjectsMassChaptersSkepticismModern TimesVenomEruditionThoroughness Author:Bernard Ramm
“That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.” MenChristianityPsychologyImpossibleModernOriginalsMissionsSignificanceFulfilledModern Man Book:Stories and Biographies from Iqbal Source: Stories and Biographies from Iqbal
“In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.” WorldSpiritAnimalPsychologyOne ThingModernCenturyKeysBehaviorUnderstoodConceptsForgottenEcologyLiving ThingsReductionModern ScienceAnimal Behavior Author:Terence McKenna
“I consider it as a foreshadowing of modernity in many different respects, and the consistency of character is interesting to the emerging modern psychology. The emphasis on dream knowledge relates quite deeply to psychoanalysis, although I suppose psychoanalysis wouldn't like to say that... Freud was always saying he was a scientist.” DifferentCharacterDreamInterestingPsychologyModernScientistRelateConsistencyEmphasisEmergingModernityPsychoanalysisForeshadowingModern Psychology Author:Marina Warner