Eric Kandel Quotes

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

Our thoughts are certainly part of us; they come from us, but we are not our thoughts. Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, 'I am not going to think today; I am too tired'? No, of course not. Just as breathing happens and is constant, thoughts happen, and they are also constant.

Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.

I love the human mind.

My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

I really do love psychology and philosophy but I'm no professional at these things. Because I love seeing the true side of humanity, as I've continued that, I have ultimately lent towards philosophy and psychology but it is not something in which I try to study.

I've always been pretty in touch with what I'm feeling.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.

I'm obsessed with the human psyche. I want to understand. I want to ask myself if I have it inside me.

I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

I've always been a very self-aware person.

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

It's very healthy to be aware of your ego.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

Maybe I think too much.

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.