Psychology

Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophy

Idealism

1788–1860

"Life is a business that does not cover the costs."

🇺🇸William James

Psychology

pragmatism

1842–1910

"The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race."

Sigmund Freud

Psychology

1856–1939

"A woman is to soften but not weaken a man."

🇩🇪Carl Jung

Psychology

1852–1924

"You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return."

🇦🇹Viktor Frankl

Psychology

1905–1997

"There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life."

🇺🇸Noam Chomsky

Philosophy

atheism

b. 1928

"Roughly speaking, states are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power..."

🇺🇸Abraham Maslow

Psychology

1908–1970

"Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, at Teacher's Toolbox"

Erich Fromm

Psychology

Frankfurt School

1900–1980

"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."

🇺🇸Steven Pinker

Psychology

atheism

b. 1954

"Steven Pinker Multimedia. Extensive lists of audio and video files"

🇨🇭Jean Piaget

Philosophy

1896–1980

"The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality."

🇺🇸Bruce Willis

Psychology

b. 1955

"Bruce Willis as David Addison Singing in Moonlighting"

🇮🇳Prem Rawat

Psychology

b. 1957

"Resolved that I, Jennifer H. Granholm, offer this certificate of tribute to Prem Rawat in honor of his exemplary career, life accomplishments, and many contributions to our citizens."

🇺🇸Max Wertheimer

Psychology

1880–1943

"Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes."

🇨🇦Jordan Peterson

Politics

b. 1962

"There is nothing more useful in combating the tragedy of life than to struggle with all your soul on behalf of the good."

🇦🇹Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Science

1901–1972

"Cybernetics, based upon the principle of feedback or circular causal trains providing mechanisms for goal-seeking and self-controlling behavior."

🇳🇱Henri J.M. Nouwen

Psychology

1932–1996

"The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it"

🇬🇧Susan Blackmore

Science

b. 1951

"If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe."

"There is no single cause for any disturbance of the total organism, whether this be expressed as a behavior pattern often labeled psychiatric entity, or a physical disturbance classified as a somatic disease."

"SALIENCE The notion here is that an effect is attributed to the cause that is most salient in the perceptual field at the time the effect is observed."

🇬🇧Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)

Psychology

b. 1946

"There is nothing an official hates more than a person who makes up his own mind."

🇺🇸Lloyd deMause

Psychology

1931–2020

"Anthropologists have concluded that "child abuse...is virtually unknown" in New Guinea."

🇺🇸Boris Sidis

Psychology

1867–1923

"If ceaseless vigilance is the price of liberty, more so is it true that ceaseless criticism of ever new opinions and ever new views, however distasteful, bizarre, and paradoxical, is the price of truth."

🇺🇸Ian Stevenson

Psychology

1918–2007

"If the vapid writings . . . did indeed emanate from him, I can only say that this implies a terrible post-mortem reduction of personal capacities."

🇺🇸Ken Wilber

Psychology

b. 1949

"Adi Da and The Case of Ken Wilber" contains a collection of Ken Wilber's writings on Adi Da, with critical commentary from Adi Da's devotees"

🇦🇹Wilhelm Stekel

Psychology

1868–1940

"Candor is always a double-edged sword; it may heal or it may separate."

🇦🇹Otto Rank

Psychology

1884–1939

"While the average well adjusted man can make the reality that is generally accepted as truth into his own truth, the creative searcher after truth seeks and finds his own truth which he then wants to make general."

🇺🇸Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Psychology

b. 1959

"We are all Danes now. We are all Jews now. We are all Pope Benedict."

🇺🇸Rensis Likert

Psychology

1903–1981

"Conflict is viewed as the active striving for one's own preferred outcome which, if attained, precludes the attainment by others of their own preferred outcome, thereby producing hostility."

🇫🇷Jacques Lacan

Psychology

psychoanalysis

1953–1980

"The man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth."

🇬🇧Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Literature

Sufism

b. 1953

"Lover and Beloved" an article featured in ascent magazine."

"Education, like neurosis, begins at home."

🇺🇸B.F. Skinner

Psychology

1904–1990

"We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement."

🇺🇸Howard Gardner

Psychology

b. 1943

"The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all children as if they were variants of the same individual, and thus to feel justified in teaching them the same subjects in the same ways."

"The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage."