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.

Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.

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.

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

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.

I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.

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.

Like your home's closets your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.

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.

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself with the creator with the creative impulse of the planet.

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.

I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.