Psychology Quotes

"There is a science to making your opponent wear down." "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." "Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?" "It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement." "Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities." "Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks." "Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young." "The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer." "The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct." "Where id was, there ego shall be." "In mourning, it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia, it is the ego itself." "One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse." "It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external 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." "The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it." "Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation." "At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away." "The repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it." "Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world." "The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions."