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“Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses. Even if it thoroughly analyzes itself, psychology (and this is one of the dubious aspects of psychoanalysis) can, to be sure, recognize its flawed native characteristics, but it cannot eliminate them. Understanding (them) is not the same as overcoming (them) and, again and again, we see the wisest of human beings helpless in the fact of their small follies which everyone else observes with a smile.”

“Physiology, in its analysis of the physiological functions of the sense organs, must use the results of subjective observation of sensations; and psychology, in its turn, needs to know the physiological aspects of sensory function, in order rightly to appreciate the psychological.”

Source: Principles of Physiological Psychology

“Everyone receives spiritual formation, just as everyone gets an education. The only question is whether it is a good one or a bad one. We need to take a conscious, intentional hand in the developmental process. We need to understand what the formation of the human spirit is, and how it can best be done as Christ would have it done. This is an indispensable aspect of developing a psychology that is adequate to human life.”

Needs Humans Done Hands Spiritual Spirit Process Christ Psychology Conscious Aspect Developing Human Life Indispensable Human Spirit Adequate Formation Developmental Spiritual Formation

Author:Dallas Willard

“I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.”

Humans Important Wanted Sports Difficult Psychology Behavior Aspect Medicine Affair Athlete Links Aggression Intriguing Neurologists

Author:Roger Bannister

“Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the idea that it has been done and that we can judge the doer and not just the happening.”

Doe Has Beens Ideas Done Happens Action Loses Moral Psychology Judging Happenings Ethics Aspect Doers

Book:Mortal Questions : Canto

Source: Mortal Questions : Canto

“Magick has many aspects, but primarily it acts as a dramatized system of “psychology”

Psychology Aspect

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other.”

Two Psychology Aspect Relation Arise

Book:Principles of Physiological Psychology

Source: Principles of Physiological Psychology

“You can't overestimate the importance of psychology in chess, and as much as some players try to downplay it, I believe that winning requires a constant and strong psychology not just at the board but in every aspect of your life.”

Trying Believe Winning Strong I Believe Psychology Player Aspect Importance Constant Chess Boards Chess Players Overestimate

Book:How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

“Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and ultimately rest on irrepresentable, transcendental factors, it is not only possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of the same thing.”

World Two Different Matter Psychology Aspect Contact Factors Transcendental

Book:The structure and dynamics of the psyche

Source: The structure and dynamics of the psyche

“The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of psychology we take a view of learning as a reconstruction rather than as a transmission of knowledge. Then we extend the idea of manipulative materials to the idea that learning is most effective when part of an activity the learner experiences as constructing a meaningful product.”

Two Ideas Views Psychology Materials Products Theory Activity Projects Aspect Meaningful Reconstruction Learners Transmission Manipulative Science Education

Author:Seymour Papert

“All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun a long circle back toward their former coherence. Whether they can arrive before the natural world is damaged beyond repair and madness destroys humanity, we cannot tell.”

Source: Coming Home to the Pleistocene

“One of the aspects I like about the film is that there is a kind of emotional, psychological discussion during the storytelling, ... Before taking a drug, go through yourself, experience yourself, all your hopes and fears in your own time. Before the pharmacology, do the psychology.”

Kind Film Psychology Emotional Drug Aspect Storytelling Psychological Discussion Hopes And Fears Pharmacology Experience Yourself

Author:Keanu Reeves

“The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.”

Important Literature Study Psychology Creation Aspect Criticism Manuscripts Literary Criticism

Author:Umberto Eco

“All changes in space which we see, hear, smell or taste are literally tactile impressions. All our senses are variations of our unique sense of touch. Two approaching objects touch one another when they finally meet without a noticeable space between them. ... This is what happens in any condensing matter in which the outer aspects move towards a centre... Each single part of matter approaches its neighboring part until the two collide, causing an impact or a pressure. It is space, which appears and disappears between and round object and in the movements of the particles of the object.”