We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.
People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can’t change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.
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