Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. – Carl Jung
Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergère and looks at the audience. – Mervyn Stockwood
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature. – G.K. Chesterton, London Observer, 9 December 1934
Psychology has a long past, but only a short history. – Hermann Ebbinghaus
A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. – Jerome Lawrence
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. – Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
Depression is rage spread thin. – George Santayana
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. – Voltaire
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. – Paul Valéry, Tel Quel, 1943
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves. – E.M. Cioran
To be too conscious is an illness — a real thoroughgoing illness. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Loneliness… is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. – Thomas Wolfe
Handwriting is autobiography. – Carrie Latet
Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected the American society within the last fifty years. – Thomas S. Szasz
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is — a vice? – Friedrich Nietzsche, alluding to the proverb “Idleness is the beginning of all v
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one. – William Menninger
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness. – Fritz Perls
The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else s. – Goodman Ace
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides. – Amos Bronson Alcott
