psychology

psychology

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A Tale of Two Cities
According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win. Life, the Universe and Everything
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide
As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
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.
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.