“Speed as a drug disorganizes the personality; speed as the goal of information dissemination commits a subtler crime. People are mainlining our words. We rarely read of the rational alternatives, only of the commands that all must change or else. This is a prescription for public panic.” PeopleGoalCrimeInformationPersonalityDrugSpeedCommitRationalCommandAlternativesPanicPrescriptionsOur WordsDissemination Author:Gail Sheehy
“In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general necessities of human nature. Rest or recreation is the element in which the personality seeks to renew its strength from these stimuli that exhaust the reserve of human resources. It's an element introduced into life by the person himself.” HumansPersonsPleasureHuman NaturePersonalityElementsResourcesRationalMotiveReservesStimulusRecreationHuman Resources Book:What Is to Be Done? Source: What Is to Be Done?
“One of the most revolutionary concepts to grow out of our clinical experience is the growing recognition that innermost core of man's nature - the deepest layers of his personality, the base of his 'animal nature' - is basically socialized, forward-moving, rational and realistic... He is realistically able to control himself, and he is incorrigibly socialized in his desires. There is no beast in man, there is only man in man.” MenAbleMovingDesireGrowsAnimalGrowingPersonalityConceptsCoreRationalRecognitionRevolutionaryBeastRealisticLayersClinicals Author:Carl Rogers
“In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. ... He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational. ... The most dangerous faculty according to Plato is the appetitive for it bonds the soul to the senses and the realm of sense objects.” SoulThreeSpeakDangerousObjectsTheoryPersonalitySensesRationalRealmsFacultyRepublicAmbitiousPlato Author:Thomas McEvilley