Quotes on Hypnosis

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

People often ask me if I'm working on a book. That's not how I feel. I feel like I work in a book. It's like putting myself under a spell. And this spell, if you will, is so real to me that if I have to leave my work for a few days, I have to work myself back into the spell when I come back. It's almost like hypnosis.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.