It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
Abraham H. MaslowTags: psychology understanding self-awareness desire
If we turn to those restrictions that only apply to certain classes of society, we encounter a state of things which is glaringly obvious and has always been recognized. It is to be expected that the neglected classes will grudge the favoured ones their privileges and that they will do everything in their to power to rid themselves of their own surplus of privation. Where this is not possible a lasting measure of discontent will obtain within this culture, and this may lead to dangerous outbreaks. But if a culture has not got beyond the stage in which the satisfaction of one group of its members necessarily involves the suppression of another, perhaps the majority---and this is the case in all modern cultures,---it is intelligible that these suppressed classes should develop an intense hostility to the culture; a culture, whose existence they make possible by their labour, but in whose resources they have too small a share. In such conditions one must not expect to find an internalization of the cultural prohibitions among the suppressed classes; indeed they are not even prepared to acknowledge these prohibitions, intent, as they are, on the destruction of the culture itself and perhaps even of the assumptions on which it rests. These classes are so manifestly hostile to culture that on that account the more latent hostility of the better provided social strata has been overlooked. It need not be said that a culture which leaves unsatisfied and drives to rebelliousness so large a number of its members neither has a prospect of continued existence, nor deserves it.
Sigmund FreudTags: psychology culture rebellion labor
When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.
Jen KnoxTags: reading books psychology writing-process philosophy-of-life women-writers jen-knox after-the-gazebo
В душе человек далеко не всегда тот, кто он в жизни.
(Пассажир - Павлику Находкину)
Tags: life people psychology
It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.
James ClavellTags: psychology japan culture inner-self
There is no divinity achieved unless the individual mind submits itself to a mind supposed supreme. The Bible in its simplest form is simply that—a book. When you give it your mind it becomes powerful.
Dew PlattTags: psychology dew-platt
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
James P. CarseTags: consciousness philosophy psychology non-fiction
On Prozac, Sisyphus might well push the boulder back up the mountain with more enthusiasm and creativity. I do not want to deny the benefits of psychoactive medication. I just want to point out that Sisyphus is not a patient with a mental health problem. To see him as a patient with a mental health problem is to ignore certain larger aspects of his predicament connected to boulders, mountains, and eternity.
Carl ElliottTags: psychology depression psychiatry
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.
Philip G. ZimbardoTags: human-nature psychology elvil
Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.
William JamesTags: psychology
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