Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Carl JungWe never love a person, but only qualities.
Blaise PascalMany people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
Eckhart TolleThe first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund BurkeWhat can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Friedrich NietzscheHatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMen willingly believe what they wish.
Julius CaesarI just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.
Kevin GatesLook at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
ConfuciusPeople respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.
Nelson MandelaMen and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.
Kevin HartFear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin DisraeliOur judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.
AristotleAmong those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
Napoleon BonaparteThe mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
Franz KafkaThe human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. KennedyOne of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
H. L. MenckenMy theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.
Jerry SeinfeldMen are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon BonaparteMen shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Niccolo MachiavelliNo man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
John SteinbeckAll cruelty springs from weakness.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert EinsteinIn time we hate that which we often fear.
William ShakespeareThe more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
Mark TwainI like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I’ve already made up my mind that I have the victory.
Joyce MeyerDo you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Oscar WildeSuspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William ShakespeareIt’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.
Robert KiyosakiWhoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Friedrich NietzscheGood psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
Abraham MaslowFew are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.
Robert GreeneThe degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.
Bertrand RussellThe question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘
Mark ZuckerbergWhen the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
PlatoPeople forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There’s a thing in psychology where they think if it’s popular, it can’t be serious.
Anthony HopkinsPeople need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.
Jim CarreyParanoia is just another word for ignorance.
Hunter S. ThompsonScience never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.
Margaret AtwoodWhat we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
Julius CaesarWe gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBoredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Arthur Schopenhauer‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
William ShakespeareWe should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaMen fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis BaconI believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
Abraham LincolnThere is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Oscar WildeTemptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.
Kendrick LamarA belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous HuxleyIf we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.
Joyce MeyerForce always attracts men of low morality.
Albert EinsteinEvery act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
Andrew CarnegieI’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.
Margaret Atwood‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
William Makepeace ThackerayI don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.
Jim CarreyLanguage is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.
Noam ChomskyPeople always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Bill GatesMorality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
H. L. MenckenNeurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl JungIt seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin