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 | "Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They
become powerless when they oppose it." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it
certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations
of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps
also in ours." | |
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Found in the topic Murder.
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| "Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel
more at home." | |
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Found in the topic Comparison.
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| "Anatomy is destiny." | |
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Found in the topic Body.
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| "Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor
conflicts." | |
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Found in the topic Flower.
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| "Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk
of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis
spares them the task of constructing a personal one." | |
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Found in the topic Psychology.
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| "Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a
secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever." | |
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Found in the topic Atheism.
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| "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." | |
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Found in the topic Cigar.
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| "The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was
the founder of civilization." | |
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Found in the topic Civilization.
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| "When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it
advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however,
such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from
the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important
decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep
inner needs of our nature." | |
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Found in the topic Decency.
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| "Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from its
readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses." | |
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Found in the topic Religion.
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| "A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into
accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the
world." | |
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Found in the topic Conduct.
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| "One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be
"happy" is not included in the plan of Creation." ... We are so made that
we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from
a state of things." | |
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Found in the topic Contrast.
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| "Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise." | |
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Found in the topic Honest.
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| "The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until
it has gained a hearing." | |
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Found in the topic Mind.
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| "The goal of all life is death." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole.
In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly
subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is
something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think. Letter (9
October 1918)" | |
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Found in the topic Housework.
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| "Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me." | |
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Found in the topic Poetry.
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| "What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant
intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average
adult." | |
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Found in the topic Children.
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| "The great question that has never been answered and which I have not
yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the
feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"" | |
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Found in the topic Prudent.
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