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“And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Feels Children Given Ability Creative Psychology Birth Female Urges Linked

Author:Zoe Kazan

“Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.”

Different Given Understanding Psychology Changed Concepts Patient Illness Technique Psychoanalysis Therapeutic Psychiatric Psychoanalytic

Author:Karl A. Menninger

“Sometimes I think that kids who are given junk food then don't crave it as adults in the same way. I don't know. I'm trying to figure out what the psychology is behind it before I have children.”

Thinking Knows Way Trying Children Sometimes Kids Given Behinds Psychology Figures Adults Crave Junk Junk Food

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given at Cardiff University last year. Astrology is not mere superstition but contains some psychological facts (like theosophy) which are of considerable importance. Astrology has actually nothing to do with the stars but is the 5000-year-old psychology of antiquity and the Middle Ages.”

Years Facts Age Lasts Courses Given Stars Psychology Middle Importance Mere University Psychological Gates Professors Superstitions Last Year Astrology Middle Ages Knocking Antiquity Cardiff

Author:Carl Jung

“Maybe, through the stories I share about my life and others and the medical research that has been dedicated to the world of positive psychology, they'll relate to the power of a positive perspective and change the world one person at a time. Pipe dream, of course, but I love the thought of being given the chance to inspire!”

“When I think about discussions at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, a group which includes not only philosophers and psychologists, but also computer scientists and linguists, it is noteworthy that one can't always tell just from the content of particular contributions from the audience, whether a given questioner is a philosopher or an empirical scientist.”

Thinking Philosophy Given Audience Psychology Groups Particular Computer Scientist Philosopher Discussion Contribution Psychologist Linguists

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a flourishing life.”

Life Lasts Given Fun Psychology Serious Practicals Maps Quests Flourishing Glee

Author:Daniel Goleman

“[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.”

Action Given Moral Psychology Influence Ethics Practicals Faculty

Author:Immanuel Kant

“Man was destined for society. His morality therefore was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong merely relative to this. This sense is as much a part of his nature as the sense of hearing, seeing, feeling; it is the true foundation of morality... The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or less degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may any particular limb of the body.”

“No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind.”

Thinking World Matter Given Religious Psychology Mankind Source No Matter What Treasure Meaning Of Life Splendor Memories Dreams Reflections Life Means Source Of Life Religious Experience

Book:Psychology and religion: West and East

Source: Psychology and religion: West and East