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The vulgarity of the myth of modernity is plainly revealed by the preeminence in its mythology of the factors of quantity; to be modern is always to beat the record in some respect. Distinction, therefore, is opposed to modernity as quality is to quantity.

Charles Baudouin

The first of men did no more than take the fruit of the tree, and that, we are told, was sin. Modern humanity "tortures the tree in order the sooner to obtain its fruit."

Charles Baudouin

To have lived a full life is to have learned to love, that is, to give greatly. It is to have learned how to make the gesture that some scholars have called oblative, opposing this term to captative; as though contrasting the gesture of offering with the gesture of seizing.

Charles Baudouin

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor, to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west.... No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors, and make success impossible.

Charles Baudouin

An idea upon which attention is peculiarly concentrated is an idea which tends to realize itself.

Charles Baudouin

Charles Baudouin

Charles Baudouin

Born: July 26, 1893

Died: August 25, 1963 (aged 70)

Bio: Charles Baudouin was a French-Swiss psychoanalyst.

Known for:

Suggestion and autosuggestion (1920)
Studies in psychoanalysis (1922)
Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics
The myth of modernity
The mind of the child

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