Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself.

Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings of adults are the results of the burdens...

Early relational trauma results from the fact that we are often given more to experience in this life than we can bear to experience consciously. This problem has been around since the beginning of...

Historically, psychologists have looked at introversion as the absence of extroversion. They measure extroversion, and if you are low in it, then you are considered an introvert. This perpetuates the...

Children need the lie to be brave enough to sleep in their beds

The man who despises himself tries to gain self-esteem from sexual adventures—which can't be done, because sex is not the cause, but an effect and an expression of a man's sense of his own value.

They have been having sex for eighteen months now (he realizes he has to make himself stop counting, as if his sexual life is a prison term, and he is working toward its completion).

Nodier's later view was that fantasy reconciles men to their fate. Fantasy and the taste for chimeras, he wrote, are symptoms of a time of political decay and transition, when the unpleasant realities...

Of the few certainties I've come across in life, one of them is that when a person says money is no object, the opposite is most likely true. Money is the only object - or will be.

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

And finally we get addicted to our sadness.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long.

Stare at the dark too long and you will eventually see what isn't there.

When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if...

people cannot and do not want to live unrelated to others.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Psychologically speaking, far from being worthless, a system is indeed necessary, for any kind of human endeavor. A structure aids in the mind's endeavor of learning. But the moment the mind becomes...

Thinking has a quiet skin. But I feel the and of things inside it. Blue hills most gentle in calm light, then stretches of assailAnd ransack. Such tangles of charred wreckage, shrapnel - bits Singling...

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

Fear is the greatest prison. Hope is the greatest freedom.

The Id and the Superego are more scientific ways of considering the Devil and God, or your personal angels and demons. Science has turned the relationship between God, the Devil and you into a...

Doubt is a creature within the air. It grows when someone hesitates.

An overwhelming amount of truths. One can go mad if they don’t have their own.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Septimus has been working too hard - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.

After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life.

The rider evolved to serve the elephant.

A man has as many social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares. He generally shows a different side of himself to each of these different groups. - WILLIAM JAMES