psychological necessity Quotes

Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity, begot religious instruction and embodied it in a magician or a priest.

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture.

The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.

How could anyone survive even a single day, if he didn't feel as if he was, in some little great way, needed?

In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.

Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.