Psychology of Religion/history/modern Thinkers

Famous quotes containing the words psychology of, psychology, religion, history, modern and/or thinkers:

    “Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaking, is a purely creative being and whose personality has been as mysterious and unfathomable to the man as the artist has been to the average person.”
    —Beatrice Hinkle (1874–1953)

    “Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is—a vice?”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.”
    —W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)

    “The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.”
    —Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)

    “I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.”
    —Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944)

    “In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sap and seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it—and tries to live off philosophy.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)