Hermann von Helmholtz Quotes

Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds.

I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

I think narcissists are endlessly watchable. The way they view the world and the way they interact within the world.

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.

What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are.

Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies.

His career will greatly engage historians, if any good ones ever appear in America, but it will be of even more interest to psychologists.

If the ideas of any particular man are determined by his environment, then the ideas of humanity, in their historical development, are determined by the development of the social environment, by the history of social relationships.

The Social Sciences will concern themselves with the rationalization of social control... the control of human behavior.

For twenty five hundred years people have been preoccupied with feelings and mental life, but only recently has any interest been shown in a more precise analysis of the role of the environment. Ignorance of that role led in the first place to mental fictions, and it has been perpetuated by the explanatory practices to which they gave rise

As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?

I've studied human psychology my whole life.

Oh, I'm a psychology nerd; I love to learn about why people behave the way they do, how experiences influence us.

I studied psychology in school, and I learned how to understand people's feelings, how to get along with people and relate to people.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.