Sourced and curated.

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis · 1933

★ 6.2

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

The Interpretation of Dreams · 1899

★ 5.5

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

The Principles of Psychology · 1890

★ 5.4

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar... Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

Psychological literature · Religious literature

The Principles of Psychology · 1890

★ 5.3

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

The Will to Believe · 1896

★ 5.3

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success with it.

1917

★ 5.3

Some people are far more sensitive to resemblances, and far more ready to point out wherein they consist, than others are. They are the wits, the poets, the inventors, the scientific men, the practical geniuses.

Scientific literature · Psychological literature

The Principles of Psychology · 1890

★ 5.2

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.

Abraham Maslow

The Psychology of Science · 1966

★ 5.2

Scientific literature · Psychological literature

Growth was seen as an endless series of daily choices and decisions in each of which one can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Abraham Maslow

The Psychology of Science · 1966

★ 5.1

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

Daniel Kahneman

Thinking, Fast and Slow · 2011

★ 4.5

A genuine first-hand religious experience... Is bound to be a heterodoxy to its witnesses, the prophet appearing as a mere lonely madman. If his doctrine prove contagious enough to spread to any others, it becomes a definite and labeled heresy. But if it then still prove contagious enough to triumph over persecution, it becomes itself an orthodoxy, its day of inwardness is over: the spring is dry; the faithful live at second hand exclusively and stone the prophets in their turn.

The Varieties of Religious Experience · 1902

★ 4.4

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Karen Horney

Our Inner Conflicts · 1945

★ 4.4

Religion is illusion, and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis · 1933

★ 3.8

Habit is... The enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

The Principles of Psychology · 1890

★ 3.7

Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits…It is nothing jointed; it flows. A "river" or a "stream" are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life.

The Principles of Psychology · 1890

★ 3.6

Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

The Principles of Psychology · 1890

★ 3.6

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

Carl Jung

1958

★ 3.6

The God whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

The Varieties of Religious Experience · 1902

★ 3.5