Ocupation: Psychologist
Life: 1895 - 1979
Birthday: 1895
Death: 1979
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Topics: Struggle, Views, Mind
It has become accepted doctrine that we must attempt to study the whole man. Actually we cannot study even a whole tree or a whole guinea pig. But it is a whole tree and a whole guinea pig that have survived and evolved, and we must make the attempt.
source: - Gardner Murphy (1947). “Personality”
Topics: Men, Pigs, Tree, Guinea Pigs
I have believed for a long time that human nature is a reciprocity of what is inside the skin and what is outside: that it is definitely not "rolled up inside us" but our way of being one with our fellows and our world. I call this field theory.
Topics: Our World, Long, Skins
