psychology Quotes

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires... ...

Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change... ...

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

Most people are naturally more influenced by fear than by respect, and they avoid evil more because of the punishment it brings than because it's wrong.

Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes... ...

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.