“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”
More from Aldous Huxley on Psychology
“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
“Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.”
“The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.”
“A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.”
Others on Psychology
Napoleon
5 quotes“There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.”
Saint Augustine
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Julius Caesar
3 quotes“As a rule what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.”
Carl Jung
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Thomas Hobbes
3 quotes“I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.”
William S. Burroughs
2 quotes“Paranoia is just having the right information.”
Orson Scott Card
2 quotes“Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.”
Jonathan Haidt
2 quotes“Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.”
Osho
2 quotes“Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.”
Steven Pinker
2 quotes“A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptiv...”
Philip K. Dick
2 quotes“Consciousness of unconsciousness”
FDR
2 quotes“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”