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We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.

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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

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Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

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In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

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Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a reflection such as we, soaked as we are in our terrestial nature, imagine it, for no reflection actually occurs, only we see earth wherever we turn.

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Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

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[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

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Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

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It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

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Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

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Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

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Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.

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The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses . . . Each generation . . . will have its creed.

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Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses.

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Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.

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This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll.

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