Reads tagged with “psychology”
The Science of How Our Minds and Our Bodies Converge in the Healing of Trauma
“When our senses become muffled, we no longer feel fully alive… If you have a comfortable connection with your inner sensations … you will feel in charge of your body, your feelings, and your self.”
Lying in Politics: Hannah Arendt on Deception, Self-Deception, and the Psychology of Defactualization
“No matter how large the tissue of falsehood that an experienced liar has to offer, it will never be large enough … to cover the immensity of factuality.”
John Cage’s Symphonic Love Letters to the Love of His Life
“i would like to measure my breath in relation to the air between us.”
The Timeless Magic of the Book in the Age of Technology: Hermann Hesse on Why We Read and Always Will
“If anyone wants to try to enclose in a small space, in a single house or a single room, the history of the human spirit and to make it his own, he can only do this in the form of a collection of books.”
Leo Tolstoy, Shortly Before His Death, on Love, Reason, Human Nature, and What Gives Meaning to Our Lives
“Reason and love define the demands of human nature… The demands of reason and love must not be subordinated to the demands of habit.”
Virginia Woolf on the Relationship Between Loneliness and Creativity
“If I could catch the feeling, I would; the feeling of the singing of the real world, as one is driven by loneliness and silence from the habitable world.”
Mary McCarthy on Love and Hannah Arendt’s Advice to Her on the Dangerous Delusion That We Can Change the People We Love
“What’s the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as-you-were?”
Permanent Present Tense: Pioneering Scientist Suzanne Corkin on How the Famous Amnesiac H.M. Illuminates the Paradoxes of Memory and the Self
“Even if we will never completely understand the way the brain works, whatever small part of the truth we are able to learn will bring us one step closer to understanding who we are.”
The Transactional Self: Psychologist Jerome Bruner on Social Mutuality, the Paradox of Privacy, and How Storytelling Shapes Our Sense of Personhood
“The components of the behavior … are not emotions, cognitions, and actions, each in isolation, but aspects of a larger whole that achieves its integration only within a cultural system.”
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