Quotations about Psychology



"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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