Psychology

“Remembering is not the re-excitation of innumerable fixed, lifeless and fragmentary traces.”

“Self-exploration really does free one from one’s ego.”

“The borders of our minds are ever shifting.”

“It is therefore all a question of stimulus and reaction.”

“Psychology must be recognized as the more strictly empirical.”

“This is true because we must “be” before we can “do,” and we can “do” only to the extent which we “are,” and what we “are” depends upon what we “think.””

“The customer’s psychology always favors a busy place.”

“If you understand yourself [from the outside] too well, you paralyse yourself.”

“I could never owe allegiance to any one of the various schools of psychoanalysis or of psychotherapy.”

“Soha életemben futballmérkőzésen olyan szorongást nem éreztem, mint amikor másodszor futottam ki ugyanarra a pályára.”

“La mémoire est, par essence, un fait biologique ; par accident, un fait psychologique.”

““The brain also possesses the singular faculty of exciting in the human body various movements without the consciousness or assistance of the soul.””

“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself, when apparent to the eyes.”

“Many truths which I then found out from my analysis of patients, and which I accounted original, were in fact widely known findings as I discovered afterwards. This was both a pleasure and a disappointment to me.”

“Tenemos la sociedad adentro.”

“We become what we think about.”

“He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.”

“Remembering is not the re-excitation of innumerable fixed, lifeless and fragmentary traces. It is an imaginative reconstruction.”