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“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”

Ifs Knows Men Doe Truth Decision Mistake Psychology Increase Foundation Hypocrisy Making Mistakes Live By Memories Dreams Reflections We All Make Mistakes

Book:pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious

Source: pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious

“We are now returning to the 18th century empirical approach with the new interest in the evolutionary basis of ethics, with 'experimental' moral philosophy and moral psychology. As a result, we understand better why moral formulas are experienced as ineluctable commands, even if there is no commander and even if the notion of an inescapable obligation is just superstition. So moral philosophy has made huge progress.”

“It's roughly the case that if systems become too complex to study in sufficient depth, physics hands them over to chemistry, then to biology, then experimental psychology, and finally on to history. Roughly. These are tendencies, and they tend to distinguish roughly between hard and soft sciences.”

Ifs Hard Hands Cases Study Psychology Complexes Depth Physics Tendencies Sufficient Biology Chemistry Experimental Psychology

Author:Noam Chomsky

“If your own strong ego clashes with other strong egos, you not going to get anywhere. I studied psychology and learned about the many parts of us that we need to integrate so we don't walk around feeling disconnected: personality, soul, ego. If you do feel disconnected, you need to ask which part is feeling that way. Your ego is there to boost you up, if recognized and used correctly.”

Ifs Way Needs Feels Soul Feelings Used Asks Strong Walks Psychology Personality Ego Clash Integrating Boost Disconnected

Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos

“My view on well-being and fulfillment comes from Maslow and positive psychology, and that is that you're satisfying three sets of needs. First need is physiological and safety needs: Got to satisfy those first. And the second is you got to satisfy your community needs because we're social animals, and if we don't have that, we're empty and we don't have people to share knowledge and bounce things off of, and challenge ourselves. And then the third is the idea is to find a calling.”

“If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”

“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

“If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.”

Ifs Would Be Able Psychology Endure Selfishness Selfish People Uninterested

Book:101 Facts of life

Source: 101 Facts of life

“If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”

“Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if any at all. What we have to study, therefore, is not psychology-for that applies only to a developed man-but mechanics. Man is not only a machine but a machine which works very much below the standard it would be capable of maintaining if it were working properly.”

Ifs Men Littles Would Be Force Study Psychology Capable Standards Machines Mechanic Maintaining External Forces

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.”

Ifs Interest Nature Interesting Attention Psychology Focus Trouble Pay Attention

Book:Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life

Source: Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life

“If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.”

Ifs Trying Made Psychology

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the purpose of my story, she should have it with her. I sat on my dad's bed and flipped through page after empty page. No stamps. No exotic locales. No travel-worn smudges or creases. Just the ID information and my mother's black-and-white photo which if it were used in a psychology textbook on the meaning of facial expressions would be labelled: Obscenely, heartbreakingly hopeful.”

Source: A Complicated Kindness: A Novel

“Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.”

Ifs Men Want Mind Firsts Sometimes Choices Next Decision Psychology Attolia King Of Attolia

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone who would claim to have discovered the opposite. No one needs a scientist to measure whether humans are prone to knavery. The question has been answered in the history books, the newspapers, the ethnographic record, and the letters to Ann Landers. But people treat it like an open question, as if someday science might discover that it's all a bad dream and we will wake up to find that it is human nature to love one another.”

“But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.”

Ifs Two Reason Process Results Psychology Circles Latter Psychologist Bane

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want to understand your evolving relationship, read psychology. But if you have just ended a relationship and would like to believe you are better off without love, read philosophy.”

Ifs Want Believe Philosophy Passion Psychology Passionate Celebrate Evolve Better Off Without Love Passionate Love Ardor

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole”

Ifs Whole Sides Dark Psychology Shadow Casts Wholeness Dark Side Shadow Side

Author:Carl Jung

“Many Introverts are also "highly sensitive," which sounds poetic, but is actually a technical term in psychology. If you are a sensitive sort, then you're more apt than the average person to feel pleasantly overwhelmed by Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" or a well-turned phrase or an act of extraordinary kindness. You may be quicker than others to feel sickened by violence and ugliness, and you likely have a very strong conscience.”

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.”

Ifs Inspirational Feels Humans Joy Psychology Positive Cease

Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

“If men act upon the teaching of the Word of God, and as proportionately men live according to the teaching and commands of the Bible, so they have in practice a sufficient psychological base. I will find you a man dealing with psychological problems on the basis of the teaching of the Word of God, even if he never heard the word psychology, or does not know what it means.”

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Author:Francis Schaeffer

“If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.”

Ifs Problem Success Winning Sports Psychology Team Achieve Tests Seasons Overcoming Management League Championship Sports Psychology

Author:Walter Smith

“Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view and opinion come from all the programming they received growing up. When you take things personally, you feel offended and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflict. You make something big out of something so little because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.”

“Freud: If it's not one thing, it's your mother”

Ifs Mother Psychology One Thing Humorous Mental Health Nine Months

Author:Robin Williams

“If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.”

Ifs Way Inspiring Education Teach Learning Psychology Teacher Method Autism Relevance Teaching Children Children Learning Psychopathology

Author:Ole Ivar Lovaas

“You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you've got it, you ain't got it. No pussycats, please.”

Ifs Sometimes Social Forget Wonder Psychology Please Basketball Instinct Killers Social Psychology Killer Instinct

Author:Bill Russell

“If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate art of handling ideas. Psychology is now able to tell us with reasonable assurance that the most influential obstacle to freedom of thought and to new ideas is fear; and fear which can with inimitable art disguise itself as caution, or sanity, or reasoned skepticism, or on occasion even as courage.”

“The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.”

Ifs Years Two Might Able Psychology Failing Succeed Forgiving Psychological Psychiatrist Psychoanalysis Hazards Forgive Yourself

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Long Has Beens Enough Form Law Psychology Military

Author:William James

“If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.”

Ifs Art Purpose Winning Consciousness Clear Psychology Magic Tendencies Branches Goddess Mindless Idiocy

Author:Starhawk

“Everyone deserves love and appreciation. If there is someone in the world whom we do not love, it is our blessing to work this out within ourselves. A very key spiritual principle, echoed in the Cayce readings as well as mainstream psychology, is that whatever we see in others that makes us angry, sad or jealous is a reflection of an issue we have in ourselves. If we can learn to love, respect and forgive ourselves, then we will not be angered and offended by what we see in others.”

“I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the constitution of the universe; and after reading them I feel as Senator Brandegee felt after a celebrated dinner in Washington. "I feel," he said, "as if I had been wandering with Alice in Wonderland and had tea with the Mad Hatter."”

“A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.”

Ifs Action Motivation Moral Psychology Theory Ethics Behaviour Defective

Book:The Possibility of Altruism

Source: The Possibility of Altruism

“What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?”

Ifs Facts Action Left Moral Psychology Arms Ethics Raises

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.”

Ifs Has Beens Said Action Emotion Moral Psychology Ethics Function Articles Definite Utterance Theorists

Author:Alasdair MacIntyre

“While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire, it may be rational for me to jump into the canal. But I have no reason to jump. I merely think I do. And, if some dangerous treatment would save your life, but you don't know that fact, it would be irrational for you to take this treatment, but that is what you have most reason to do.”

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Author:Derek Parfit

“In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act toward us, if we were in his circumstances and he in ours; or more generally - What we approve in others, that we ought to practise in like circumstances, what we condemn in others we ought not to do.”

Ifs Action Moral Cases Psychology Judging Ought Circumstances Ethics Practise

Book:Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays

Source: Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays

“In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's a fantastic game which can unite people and generations! It's a language which you'll find people "speak" in every country. If you reach a certain level you find a very rich world! Art, sport, logic, psychology, a battlefield, imagination, creativity not only in practical games but don't forget either how amazing a feeling it is to compose a study, for example (unfortunately that's not appreciated these days but it's a fantastic part of chess!).”

“If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw”

Ifs Should Suffering Psychology Position Draws Active Chess Opponents

Author:Jeremy Silman

“The healing power of music is vast. Music therapy is in its infancy in Western psychology. If we knew more, we'd be able to do amazing things, and maybe even make permanent changes in the brain's mysterious workings. With a simple song and four chords, you might be able to do something useful, even life-changing. With all the songs you know, you might be a virtual, veritable medicine chest for the right person.”

“I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.”

Ifs Should Hate Left Answers Psychology Wise Speech Mass Scientist I Hate Cameras Crowds Manifestation Abstract Fancy Left Alone Crossfire

Author:Albert Einstein

“I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.”

Ifs Careers Psychology Awful No Love

Author:Dane Cook

“I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity. My name is no longer my own. I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth.”

Ifs Trying Kind Doe I Can Sometimes Matter Lying Names My Own Psychology Minutes Figures Print Reverse Commodity Personal Things Does It Matter Reverse Psychology

Author:River Phoenix

“Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that is not what moviemaking is, that is not what it’s about. It’s not just about getting a performance. It’s also about the psychology of the cinematic moment, and the psychology of the presentation of that, of that window.”

Ifs Moments Faces Actors Psychology Window Performances Cameras Filmmaking Presentation Cinematic

Author:David Fincher

“The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations or his psychological health... We must find out what psychology might be if it could free itself from the stultifying effects of limited, pessimistic and stingy preoccupations with human nature.”

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Author:Abraham Maslow

“It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.”

Ifs Humans Certain Study Psychology Prison Absurd Generalization Misrepresentation

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.”

Ifs Firsts Character Enjoy Psychology Too Much Trust Training Instinct Impression First Impression

Author:Billy Zane

“The Passion of Christ was an experience which included in itself every experience except sin, of every member of the human race. If one may say this with reverence, the fourteen incidents of the Stations of the Cross show not only the suffering but the Psychology of Christ. Above all, they show, in detail, his way of transforming suffering by love. He shows us, step by step, how that plan of love can be carried out by men, women, and children today, both alone in the loneliness of their individual lives and together in communion with one another.”

“It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call something there, more deep and more general than any of the special and particular senses by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.”

Ifs Humans May Feelings Reality Consciousness Psychology Special Particular Perception Currents Senses Objectives Human Consciousness

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral pleasures, with minimal gratifications, and without meaning, there is a road out. This road takes you through the countryside of pleasure and gratification, up into the high country of strength and virtue, and finally to the peaks of lasting fulfillment: meaning and purpose”

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Book:Authentic Happiness

Source: Authentic Happiness

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