The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs,...

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs,...

Everything is politics.

Everything is politics.

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle...

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle...

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of...

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of...

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the...

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the...

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or...

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or...

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs,...

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs,...

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family...

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family...

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which...

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which...

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Speech is civilization itself.

Speech is civilization itself.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly...

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly...