"The outstanding characteristic of man is his
individuality. There was never a person just like him, and there never will be
again." -- Gordon Allport (pg. 3, Personality)
"The ability to reach a rich vein of such material and
translate it effectively into philosophy, literature, music, of scientific
discovery is one of the hallmarks of what is commonly called genius."
-Carl G. Jung. (pg. 25, Man and His Symbols)
"Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical
being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's
life." -William James (1898)
"Emotions are Darwinian algorithms of the mind."
-Leda Cogminds & John Tooby
"Love joins hate; aggression, fear, expansiveness,
withdrawal; and so on; in blends designed not to promote the happiness and
survival of the individual, but to favor the maximum transmission of the
controlling genes." -E.O. Wilson
"To be human means to feel inferior. At the beginning of every psychological life there is a deep inferiority feeling." -Alfred Adler
"As many archetypes as there are typical situations in life." -Carl Jung
"The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass delusions. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such." -Sigmund Freud
"Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved. They are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments [is] a powerful share of aggressiveness." -Sigmund Freud
"Disposition are never wholly consistent. What a bore it would be if they were- and what chaos if they were not at all consistent." -Gordon Allport
"Personality, like every other living thing, changes as it grows." -Gordon Allport
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