#psycho

A person can't change all at once. ↗

— Stephen King

#change

But it seems to me to be an imperfection in things of beauty, and a weakness in man, if an explanation from the shallow-side has a destructive effect. The horror which we feel for Freudian interpretations is entirely due to our own barbaric or childish naivete, which believes that there can be heights without corresponding depths, and which blinds us to the really "final" truth that, when carried to extremes, opposites meet. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#science #beauty

The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#another #because #beyond #control #different

Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you. ↗

— Andrew Sarris

#couch #else #favorite #i #me

It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#belongs #cases #define #domain #independent

Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing. ↗

— Shannyn Sossamon

#anything #both #different #difficult #doing

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#because #explanation #happen #happened #most

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#had #less #more #other #period

The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings. ↗

— John Blair

#brutality #psychology #than #worse

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#biography #only #psychology