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“The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler's later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. "Our science ... is based on common sense." Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.”

World Names Individual Sides Common Half Psychology Worst Honest Practicals Common Sense Frank Conventional Honored Deceitful Honest Truth Half Truth Adler

Author:Alfred Adler

“Yearning is the word that best describes a common psychological state shared by many of us, cutting across boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexual practice.”

States Common Race Class Practice Psychology Cutting Gender Boundaries Psychological Yearning

Book:Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

Source: Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

“Every mind has another vision of reality. There is not a common reality. Every person thinks he is like the others, but every person is different, living in his own psychology.”

Thinking Mind Persons Different Reality Common Vision Psychology

Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong. Their understanding is based on folk psychology, the grasp of human nature by common sense ¾ defined (by Einstein) as everything learned to the age of 18 ¾ shot through with misconceptions, and only slightly advanced over ideas employed by the Greek philosophers”

“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.”

“There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?'”

Ifs Trying Common Psychology Violence Eternal Criticism Genes Killers Bloody Strife Doom Evolutionary Psychology Apes

Author:Steven Pinker

“I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.”

Term Common Psychology Crowds Lowest Evolutionary Psychology Anarchist Herds Mistrust Common Denominator Power And Control Lowest Common Denominator

Author:Will Self

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

Author:William Shakespeare

“Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.”

Should Firsts Said Action Lasts Language Common Moral Psychology Ordinary Ethics Common Sense Last Words Discarded Austin

Book:The View From Nowhere

Source: The View From Nowhere

“Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.”

Faces Common Psychology Theory Spring Extremes Common Sense Impulse Biology Statistics Heroism Illogical Scientific Theory

Author:Christopher McDougall

“In every physical action, unless it is purely mechanical, there is concealed some inner action, some feelings. This is how the two levels of life in a part are created, the inner and the outer. They are intertwined. A common purpose brings them together and reinforces the unbreakable bond.”

Mind Two Philosophy Feelings Body Action Together Purpose Levels Common Psychology Medicine Senses Concealed Soma Intertwined Unbreakable Common Purpose Levels Of Life Unbreakable Bonds

Book:Creating a Role

Source: Creating a Role