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492 Psychologist Quotes

While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers.

Boredom Dangers Decade Despair
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Freedom is the possibility of development, of enhancement of one's life - or the possibility of withdrawing, shutting oneself up, denying and stultifying one's growth

Denying Development Enhancement Freedom
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Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.

Based Dignity Freedom Human
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Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.

Always Dangers Deals Fascination
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I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.

Aware Become Believe Experience
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Problems are the outward signs of unused inner possibilities.

Inner Outward Possibilities Problems
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Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience of freedom.

Any Awareness Destiny Experience
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If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny.

Achieve Daring Destiny Engaging
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The cooperative, loving side of existence goes hand in hand with coping and power, but neither the one nor the other can be neglected if life is to be gratifying.

Cooperative Coping Existence Goes
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Our particular problem in America at this point in history is the widespread loss of the sense of individual significance, a loss which is sensed inwardly as impotence

America History Impotence Individual
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In the utopian aim of removing all power and aggression from human behavior, we run the risk of removing self-assertion, self-affirmation, and even the power to be.

Aggression Aim Behavior Even
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Every being has the need not only to be but to affirm his own being. This is especially significant for the human organism, for it is gifted with, or condemned to, self-consciousness.

Affirm Being Condemned Every
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Existence Give Making Myth
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Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'

Am Answering Give Identity
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Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that without it they would lose the sense of their own existence.

Afraid Dependence Existence Far
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Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.
Acceptance Bay Because Being
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We are anxious because we do not know what roles to pursue, what principles for action to believe in. Our individual anxiety, somewhat like that of the nation, is a basic confusion and bewilderment about where we are going.

About Action Anxiety Anxious
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Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Intolerance Ambiguity Mark Authoritarian personality
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Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime

Every work Art Uncommitted crime
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People know what they want because they know what other people want.

People Know what Want
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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Love Find Show yourself Weak
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There is no right life in the wrong one.

Right life Wrong one
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Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Freedom Choose Black White
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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Art Magic Delivered Being truth
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Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

Only thought Does violence Shatter myth
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Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

Evil people Imagined dying
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There is no love that is not an echo.

No love An echo
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Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

Laughing Cultural industry Mockery Happiness
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True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

True thought Alone Understand themselves
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The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.

Art Reflect History More truthfully
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Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.

World Exists Possible Enough afraid
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In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.

Innermost recesses Humanism Soul Frantic prisoner
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Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

Art Masses Confronting Conforming
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There is no true life within a false life.

True life Within False
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A landscape becomes uglier when an admirer disrupts it with the words 'how beautiful'.
Landscape Uglier Admirer How beautiful
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Best years Your life You decide Your problems
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There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well . And the world must be easy.

Three must Hold us Back Do well
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People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

People Things Upset us By believing
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Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.

Reality What happens We think Events
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You mainly feel the way you think.

You mainly Feel The way Think
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When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed.

People change Irrational belief Flexible preferences Less disturbed
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By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

Honestly acknowledging Past errors Never damning Can learn
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Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.

Even injustice Good point Challenge Happy
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

Best year Your life You decide Your problems
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If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts

Human emotions Result Thinking Appreciably control
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Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.

Whatever May be Still largely The creator
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The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

The attitude Unconditional Self-acceptance Important variable
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The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.

Great majority Things Panicked Self created
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The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Art Love Persistence
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Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Happiness Experienced Striving towards Goal
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