Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

I’m addicted to placebos.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‚nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you’ll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic… The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

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

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.