Human Behavior Quotes

"I love reading people. I really enjoy watching people’s interactions and learning about them." "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls" "A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world." "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." "As long as you know men are like children, you know everything" "There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking." "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." "The proper study of mankind is man" "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."