“If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are even more affected by what I have called the scientistic prejudice, and by specious claims of what science can achieve.” IfsPhilosophySpeakPsychologyAchieveClaimsPrejudiceBranchesAffectedMistakenSociologyPsychiatry Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of slipping into ""psycho-speak," however. Kids pick up instantly your attempt at being a pseudo-shrink. Most resent it and are apt to tune out anything that sounds like you're reading a script from the latest child-psychology text.” MindChildrenKidsReadingSpeakSoundPsychologyLike YouPicksPercentHundredScriptsCarefulTunesBroadsBe CarefulShrinksResentPsychoSlippingPseudoChild Psychology Book:The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World Source: The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World
“To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process.” PeopleTryingLightSpeakLanguageProcessPsychologyMaterialsSourceTruth IsWideEndlessGapsShedManipulateObfuscationObsequiousness Author:Mark Leibovich
“My degree was in Depth Psychology and Religion, so I can really speak directly about pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga.” I CanSpeakPsychologyDegreesYogaDepthPops Author:Gary Kraftsow
“When we start making distinctions between soul and spirit, we're in very, very murky waters. There is the whole issue of the English language, which has a rather limited vocabulary when it comes to psychological descriptions, not to speak of spiritual descriptions. We're good mythically - the English language is superb for myth. But we're not very good for psychology or spirituality.” SoulWholeSpiritualSpiritSpiritualitySpeakLanguageWaterIssuesPsychologyVery GoodMythPsychologicalDistinctionDescriptionVocabularyEnglish LanguageSuperbMurky Water Author:Jean Houston
“I believe my research "validates" is the idea that "the water holds and transmits information." I believe that the more we properly understand water, the more we can expand our consciousness into other dimensions. The validation for me personally has been invaluable because to be honest I could not sense the invisible world through my own sensibilities. When people would speak of the inner world of our psychology I would wonder if that was even possible, but through seeing how our thoughts have an observable effect on water I no longer doubt and it's because of this validation.” PeopleWorldBelieveSpeakI BelieveWaterConsciousnessWonderDoubtPsychologyHonestInvisibleBeing HonestSensibility Author:Masaru Emoto
“We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.” DoeReasonSpeakVirtuePsychologyConceptsSubstanceHonourTranslateOur Thoughts Book:Principles of Physiological Psychology Source: Principles of Physiological Psychology
“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.” WorldCultureSpeakLanguagePsychology Author:Frantz Fanon
“In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is not to investigate the essence of things-we do not at all know what this would mean&mash;but to develop those concepts that allow us to speak with each other about the events of nature in a fruitful manner.” KnowsMeanStatesScienceSpeakDealsKnowledgePsychologyEventsConceptsTasksEssenceAffairSimplicityPhysicsAgain And Again Author:Niels Bohr
“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!).” PeopleIfsWorldArtCountryFeelingsYoungCertainGirlGamesSpeakLanguageSportsImaginationForgetPoorLevelsBoysCreativityStudyRichPsychologyGenerationsExampleLogicChessPracticalsFantasticThese DaysUnbelievableAppreciatedBattlefieldsRich PoorImagination CreativityBoy GirlUnbelievable ThingsNot Appreciated Author:Judit Polgar
“To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships even when they have lost all other meaning and purpose. People arrive at a factory and perform a totally meaningless task from eight to five without question because the structure demands it be that way. There's no villian, no 'mean guy' who wants them to live meaningless lives, it's just that the structure, the system demands it and no one is willing to take on the formidable task of changing the structure just because it is meaningless.” PeopleWayWantMeanGovernmentPurposeGuyCertainLostSpeakPsychologyFiveWillingDemandTasksInstitutionsStructureEightMeaninglessEstablishmentFactoriesFormidableZen Motorcycle MaintenanceMeaningless LifeMean Guy Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mover, or as object to subject, because the determining factors that radiate outward from the self surround the ego on all sides and are therefore supraordinate to it. The self, like the unconscious, as an a priori existent out of which the ego evolves. It is, so to speak, an unconscious prefiguration of the ego. It is not I who create myself; rather, I happen to myself.” SelfSeemsHappensSpeakSidesTermConsciousnessPsychologySubjectsObjectsEgoMovedFactorsEvolveUnconsciousSurroundSuitableExponents Author:Carl Jung