Never stay in a bad marriage and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary it means accepting it as it comes with all the handicaps of heredity of suffering of psychological complexes and injustices.

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal moral and political.

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that and really getting an education on it I think it was part of the process of it learning about it and trying to lick it.

I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations my body limitation psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

Like all science psychology is knowledge and like science again it is knowledge of a definite thing the mind.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Our problem from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge.

Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy but it's more like pop psychology not a course of treatment or anything. To me it's more like social intelligence.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

For me insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination lack of creativity.

There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.

I was a loner as a child and happiest at home launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional psychological growth.

Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people working really hard and pleasing people which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.

History sociology economics psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses psychology courses history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

The principle that human nature in its psychological aspects is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.