Psychologist Quotes

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

You can be right or you can be happy.

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.