But profound as psychology is, it's a knife that cuts both ways (...). I have purposely resorted to this method, gentlemen of the jury, to show that you can prove anything by it. It all depends on who makes use of it. Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously. I am speaking of the abuse of psychology, gentlemen.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: psychology
Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.
Robert CormierTags: love humanity evil psychology sin heroes robert-cormier
Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.
Megan Whalen TurnerTags: decisions psychology influence
The healthier people are, the more they are willing to admit to their limitations and so the more open they are to the possibility of improvement.
Robin SkynnerTags: psychology
Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordination of actual individuals and the grotesque exaltation of symbolic ones like Kim Il Sung.
Christopher HitchensTags: psychology dictatorship cults north-korea kim-il-sung subordination
Mathilde made an effort to use the more intimate form; she was evidently more attentive to this unusual way of speaking than to what she was saying. This use of the singular form, stripped of the tone of affection, ceased, after a moment, to afford Julien any pleasure, he was astonished at the absence of happiness; finally, in order to feel it, he had recourse to his reason. He saw himself highly esteemed by this girl who was so proud, and never bestowed unrestricted praise; by this line of reasoning he arrived at a gratification of his self-esteem.
StendhalTags: psychology insight thoughts psychological-prose
Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought.
StendhalTags: love passion psychology thought
Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.
Penelope KeithTags: psychology ego shyness depths egoism
To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
Sun TzuTags: peace war victory psychology strategy intimidation art-of-war
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
StendhalTags: psychology personality
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