Human Behavior Quotes

"People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people." "Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent." "Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or equations" "When people are like each other they tend to like each other." "The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization." "I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole." "The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling." "The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions." "Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world." "The repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it." "The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it." "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." "One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse." "The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct." "Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions." "He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore." "People with opinions just go around bothering each other." "To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved." "People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their sili" "Vengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries."