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Peter Gay Inspirational Quotes (9)

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My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.
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I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.
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To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.
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Since God is silent, man is his own master he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.
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With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch.
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Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
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I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did.
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People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.
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The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.
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