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“Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.”

Mind Certain Psychology Limits Assuming Determined

Author:George Trumbull Ladd

“Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of goods. Science in all its branches - physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology - is the servant and upholder of this system”

Humans Psychology Civilization Directors Limits Capacity Productions Driven Physics Servant Branches Biology Goods Chemistry Technological Machinery Multiplying

Author:Charles A. Beard

“A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.”

Knows Men Passion Found Goal Psychology Limits Horse Like Me Tyrants Hobbies Consuming Neurosis Beckoning

Book:The Origins of Psychoanalysis: Letters, Drafts and Notes to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1902

Source: The Origins of Psychoanalysis: Letters, Drafts and Notes to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1902

“Unlike Freud, Jung did not believe that a dream is a mask for a meaning already known but deceitfully withheld from the consciousmind. In his view, dreams were communication, ideas expressed not always straightforwardly, but in the best way possible within the limits of the medium. Dreaming, in Jung's psychology, is a constructive process.”

Way Believe Ideas Dream Process Views Known Psychology Communication Limits Best Way Mediums Mask Constructive Jung

Author:Jeremy Campbell

“Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too.”

People Hands Age Used Hate Evil Force Sex Psychology Century Limits Release Tyrants Mechanism Forbidden Breeding Scapegoat Sadism Cathartic

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“One finds limits by pushing them.”

Motivational Inspiring Business Psychology Limits Economics Entrepreneur Life Changing Pushing Businessman Computer Science Motivational Business

Author:Herbert Simon

“While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology.”

“Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just as traditional French cooking does not use seaweed or raw fish, so neoclassical models do not make assumptions derived from psychology, anthropology, or sociology. I disagree with any rules that limit the nature of the ingredients in economic models.”

“To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image making faculty, is a very important part of our mental functioning. An image formed by the imagination is a reality from the point of view of psychology; it is quite true that it has no physical existence, but are we going to limit reality to that which is material? We shall be far out of our reckoning if we do, for mental images are potent things, and although they do not actually exist on the physical plane, they influence it far more than most people suspect.”

People Ifs Mind Important Reality Imagination Views Existence Psychology Influence Materials Limits Point Of View Planes Realms Faculty Suspects Imaginary Reckoning

Author:Dion Fortune

“Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.”

Needs Doe Hands Form Psychology Fronts Limits Racism Economics Arise Biology Metaphysics Inventing Deploying

Book:Racism

Source: Racism

“Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit.”

Silence Psychology Limits Abuse Anger Patience Temper Offense Limitations Anger Management Introverts Verbal Abuse Quiet People Fighting Back

Author:Joyce Rachelle