Psychological Phenomenon Quotes

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true. The specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.

If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

People say, well, do you ever hear any other voices other than, like, a few people? Of course I do.

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?

She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments. Instead of feeling worthy of recognition, they feel undeserving and guilty, as if a mistake has been made. Despite being high achievers, even experts in their fields, women can't seem to shake the sense that it is only a matter of time until they are found out for who they really are- impostors with limited skills or abilities.

In your head, a sunset can go on for days

Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.

You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.

Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. But when it goes away you can't understand it at all any longer.

The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.

How come people always flip and think they're Jesus? Why not Buddha? Particularly in America, where more people resemble Buddha than Jesus. 'Ah'm BUDDHA!' 'You're Bubba!' 'Ah'm Buddha now..All I gotta do is change 3 letters on ma belt.

In fact, even in that store Draeger's they had 348 different kinds of jam actually in the jam aisle. And what we found over about, say, 10 years of research is that as the number of choices actually increase people are less likely to make a choice and sometimes they do this even when it's really bad for them.

Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed - and each of the five has been me.

People always snap and think they're Jesus. How come no one ever snaps and thinks they're Buddha?

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response.

Why can't I believe? she asked the darkness. Behind her eyelids she saw an animal. It was golden colour, with gentle green eyes and canine teeth, and curly wool instead of fur. It opened its mouth, but it did not speak. Instead, it yawned.It gazed at her. She gazed at it. "You are the effect of a carefully calibrated blend of plant toxins," she told it.Then she fell asleep.

Do you know how short you have to be to have a Napoleon complex in North Korea?