Human Psyche Quotes by Gary Chapman, Tony Robbins, Nadine Gordimer, Richard Linklater, Emraan Hashmi, Poul Anderson and many others.
Isolation is devastating to the human psyche.
The most powerful force in the human psyche is people’s need for their words and actions to stay consistent with their IDENTITY – how we define ourselves.
The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
The human psyche creates structure. We all go through our lives like, ‘Oh! And then I moved here.’ We’re pattern-seeking, structure-producing machines.
I’ve always been a huge fan of thrillers like David Fincher’s ‘Se7en.’ I am fascinated by the disturbing, dark underbelly of life. I find such films deeply engrossing. They delve deep into the human psyche, and that’s a place worth exploring.
My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won’t yield to computation.
Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.
Actors are basically drag queens. People will tell you they act because they want to heal mankind or, you know, explore the nature of the human psyche. Yes, maybe. But basically we just want to put on a frock and dance.
I try to live instinctively. And I guess I’ve always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. I really do think that dreaming and fantasies are very important to the human psyche and the soul. That’s why I want to act.
Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar’s gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.
If you’re feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
Intimidation is an unusual animal: it’s a lot about body language and understanding the human psyche. Knowing that usually a direct stare will crush most human souls, and that’s just the basic gist of it… The soul-crushing stare, the fatherly disappointment, mixed with a little bit of hate and rage – you’re on your way.
At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don’t worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.
I really do think that dreaming and fantasies are very important to the human psyche and the soul. That’s why I want to act.
It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.
I think there’s something in the human psyche that we’re titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.
To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet.
Basic human contact – the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words – is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you’re feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche
I’m obsessed with the human psyche. I want to understand. I want to ask myself if I have it inside me.
Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently. Yet countless socializing forces, from Aunt Clara to the latest perfume ad, reinforce beliefs like ‘If I were pretty enough, I would be loved.’
The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.