Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses.
I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on a ground similar to that on which Egoists refuse to admit the axiom of Rational Benevolence. If the Utilitarian has to answer the question, 'Why should I sacrifice my own happiness for the greater happiness of another?' it must surely be admissible to ask the Egoist 'Why should I sacrifice a present pleasure for a greater one in the future? Why should I concern myself about my own future feelings any more than about the feelings of other persons?'
Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student of neuroscience, linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, and psychology. He's redefining and reforming the role of the philosopher.
Magick, in it's own way, is a science of psychology because it uses the power of the mind to bring forth change in one's life.
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.
Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People.
exile. . . might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.
It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do.
Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human psychology is to grab onto comforting beliefs for purely emotional reasons, and then justify those beliefs to ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations.
equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring on it any special status.
Inspirational Psychology brings peace and choice to life even in the most difficult of situations.
A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.
I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.
No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
We all have a dark side, and we have to confront our dark side. That's pop American psychology.
I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.
The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.
Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.