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492 Psychologist Quotes

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Light Darkness Purpose Being
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It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.

Hard Find Own Exist
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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

Faith Strong Enough Journey
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

People Freedom Involve Want
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I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.

Insight Capacity Good Evil
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The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.

Purpose Life Bear Burden
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You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.

Pay Price Choose Poison
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If you can't understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences. For example if someone is making everyone around them miserable and you'd like to know why, their motive may simply be to make everyone around them miserable including themselves.

Understand Someone Look Action
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If you don't say what you think then you kill your unborn self.

Feel Kill Self Think
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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.

Understand Complex Believe Think
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If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.

Future Fulfill Worry Obligation
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects. And you can say

Select Nature Make Success
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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you're going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.

Little Order Insist World
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Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.

View Matter Wrong Right
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Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

Power Vision Direction Force
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You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.

Protect Frighten Hurt Identify
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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.

Think Tough Dangerous Capable
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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.

True Always Come Power
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.

Suffer Know Terribly Cause
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You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse.

Determine Life Move Instead
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If you have a comprehensive explanation for everything then it decreases uncertainty and anxiety and reduces your cognitive load. And if you can use that simplifying algorithm to put yourself on the side of moral virtue then you’re constantly a good person with a minimum of effort.

Effort Person Moral Virtue
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.

Have Perhaps You What
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You don't get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.

Price Pay Choose Get
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Change Liberate Accept Oppresses
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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Pain Coming Conscious Without
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Debt Play Owe Imagination
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Rest Error Truth Knowledge
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Vain Intellect Hand Mystery
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Look Depend Thing How
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Hang Talent Dangerous Great
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Inferno Pass Through Passion
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An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Heart Enough Brilliant Gratitude
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Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Power Love Shadow Rule
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Love Play Creative Mind
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The rational attitude which permits us to declare objective values as valid at all is not the work of the individual subject, but the product of human history.

Human Subject Declare Rational
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Least Life Worth Greatest
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To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Right Problem Solution Ask
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To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

Dream Part Nature Intention
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The capacity for directed thinking I call intellect; the capacity for passive or undirected thinking I call intellectual intuition.

Passive Capacity Intuition Intellect
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Between Human Qualities Little
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I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.

Fact Individual Mind Avoid
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Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality.

Power Rest Turn Moral
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whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

Apply Good Lacking Supply
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That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves.

Compel Create Subtitute External
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A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

Dream Remain Understood Mere
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A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

Special Ability Heavy Energy
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Pretend Understand World Intellect
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If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.
Lonely Knows Man Becomes
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I regret many follies which sprang from my obstinacy; but without that trait I would not have reached my goal.

Regret Follies Sprang Obstinacy
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As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

Change Begin Single Individual
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