Psychology

“Human nature is not at fault.”

“Human beings are difficult.”

“Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”

“Psychology should be conceived as the science of the self, or person, as related to its environment, physical and social.”

““Part of a large subconscious corpus of personal myth, like an island above the sea, but joined underwater to other islands.””

“The modern city with its multistory buildings ... have redirected ... the normal psychology of visual perception. It would seem that only the camera is capable of reflecting contemporary life.”

“Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.”

“Si queremos que la Psicología contribuya a la liberación de nuestros pueblos, tenemos que elaborar una Psicología de la liberación.”

“The first priority is to cure patients by psychological means.”

“Among the mechanisms of personal agency, none is more central or pervasive than people's beliefs about their capabilities to exercise control over events that affect their lives.”

“I have no hesitation in saying that scientific management has hitherto consisted largely in the application of scientific methods to industry in the absence of psychological principles.”

“Humanistic psychology focuses on psychological health rather than on mental illness.”

“Among the mechanisms of human agency, none is more central or pervasive than people's beliefs in their efficacy to influence events that affect their lives.”

“J'aime bien fonctionner dans un climat de conflit pour éprouver la réaction des hommes.”

“In the history of the individual as of the race, thought, even the abstract thought of science, grows out of the free play of imagination.”

“Whenever branches of intellectual activity are at all dissimilar, then their correlations with one another appear wholly due to their being all variously saturated with some common fundamental Function.”

“Every young man needs a little psychology.”

“His “Essay concerning Human Understanding” is primarily a theory of knowledge, not a system of psychology.”

“The goal of psychology, in my view, is to find a richer way in which we think about ourselves.”

““there is no such thing as general intelligence””