The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress. – Oliver Goldsmith
We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Idleness is the parent of psychology. – Friedrich Nietzsche
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. – Plato
A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter. – Susan Sontag
