Psychology/Philosophy related quotes & info:

"Without music, life would be a mistake." - NIETZSCHE.

"When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." - Picasso

"....what is impressive is the conservatism of the material culture of wild chimpanzees, in that no innovation has been seen in 25 years." - W.McGREW, 1986,

Determined to be unfettered but not lonely, Brahms fashioned the motto "Frei aber Froh" ("free but glad"). Its musical symbol, the notes F-A-F, appears here and there in his music."

"Marriage is the death of hope" - Woody Ellen

"Many men of genius themselves prize madness and insanity as the highest distinction of the exceptional man." - E.KRETSCHMER, 1931, The Psychology of Men of Genius.

"Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems." - Ludwig WITTGENSTEIN

"The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully [cultivated] by the inferiority complex of the public." - Ezra POUND.

"If men knew what women said about them in private, the human race would cease to exist." - W.H.AUDEN.

"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them very little." - Doctor JOHNSON.

"Thou goest to woman? -- Do not forget thy whip!" - NIETZSCHE, Thus Spake Zarathustra.

"Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has one solution: it is called pregnancy." - NIETZSCHE, Thus Spake Zarathustra.

"Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another." - H.L.MENCKEN.

"Behind every great man there stands an astonished woman." Lester Pearson (Canadian Prime Minister, 1963-1968).

"The woman's egg, several hundred times bigger than the sperm that fertilizes it, carries all the genetic messages the child will ever receive. Women, therefore, are the original, the first sex, the biological norm from which males are only a deviation." - Rosalind MILES (Head of the Centre for Women's Studies, Coventry Polytechnic), 1988. Interviewed by Rosalind Yarde, Times Higher Educational Supplement, 22 vii.

"[In Simon LeVay's work] the average size of the INAH 3 nucleus [of the hypothalamus] in the [male] homosexual group and the women was less than half that of the heterosexual male group.... LeVay's work draws strength from its antecedents, particularly studies in rats which demonstrated the existence of a region in the hypothalamus that was different in males and females. The difference is induced by male sexual hormones, acting around the time of birth. This line of inquiry has led to the view that the default programme for the mammalian brain is female: a female brain organisation will develop, unless male hormones modify it at the crucial stage when it is particularly open to endocrine influence. Thomas Aquinas anticipated the idea when he declared that a woman is a mas occasionatus: a man who has not reached his final destination." - Marek KOHN, 1992, 'Sex and the brain'. New Statesman & Society, 27 xi 92.

"A gene causing the index finger to be shorter than the ring finger is said to be dominant in men but recessive in women, with the result that more women have longer forefingers than men. Since this finger-length ratio varies considerably within sex, the possibility that it might relate to masculinity-femininity of social behaviour in women was investigated. 985 women provided self-reports on the length of their fingers and their degree of assertiveness, without knowledge of the hypothesized link. Women whose forefinger was shorter than their ring finger were more likely to describe themselves as 'assertive and competitive'...." - Glenn D. WILSON, 1983, Personality & Individual Differences 4.

"[At the yam harvest in the Trobriand Islands] women go on the rampage. No man is safe to walk alone, day or night. He fears an ambush and, indeed, rape. In gangs of 30 or more, women lie in wait for a victim. ....Two or more women may be satisfied in one ambush, depending on the degree of anxiety exhibited by the victim.... an islander who had been raped twice implied it was a surprisingly pleasant experience, [but humiliation followed later]. The women bite off their victims' eyebrows and eyelashes to prove he has been "had", so that he returns to his village bedraggled, bitten and eyebrowless for several weeks' relentless teasing.... [A trained Trobriand doctor] suggested that the yam contains substances which, taken in large quantities, arouse the sexual appetites of women.... Despite their sexual freedom, the Trobriand woman has not found some feminist nirvana. She wields little power in daily life." - Isabella TREE, 1992, London Evening Standard, 11 xi.

"....an attractive man or woman confederate approached strangers of the opposite sex on a college campus and posed one of three randomly selected questions: "I have been noticing you around campus. I find you very attractive. (a) Would you go out with me tonight? (b) Would you come over to my apartment tonight? (c) Would you go to bed with me tonight?" Of the women approached for a date, roughly 50% consented; of the women approached with an invitation to go back to the man's apartment, only 6% consented; and of the women approached with a request for sex, none consented. Of the men approached, roughly 50% agreed to go out on a date (same percentage as women), 69% agreed to go back to the woman's apartment, and fully 75% agreed to go to bed with her that evening. These findings have been replicated (R.D.Clark & E.Hatfield, 1989, J. Psychol. & Human Sexuality 2) and appear to be robust." - D.M.BUSS & D.P.SCHMITT, 1993, 'Sexual strategies theory: an evolutionary perspective on human mating'. Psychological Review 100, 2, 204-232.

"Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money; but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them." - Wilkie COLLINS.