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Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (1959)
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It is exhilarating and yet terrifying to read Freud as a moralist, to see how compelling can be the judgment of a man who never preaches, leads us nowhere, assures us of nothing except perhaps that, having learned from him, the burden of misery we must find strength to carry will be somewhat lighter.
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Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.
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Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love pathetic.
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Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.
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You must have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
Joshua Reynolds
Philip Rieff
Born:
December 15, 1922
Died:
July 1, 2006
(aged 83)
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