Human psychology Quotes

"Dreams with a painful content are to be analyzed as the fulfillments of wishes."

"There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle."

"Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment."

"People are naturally more superficial with attractive people. In terms of impressions, there's a trade-off between competence and looks. We can't help making snap judgments, and beautiful people may have a hard time being seen as competent"

"How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined"

"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted"

"We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events"