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The great question that has never been answered…is what does a woman want? — Sigmund Freud · 1925 We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. — Sigmund Freud · 1917 The ego's relation to the id might be compared with that of a rider to his horse. The horse supplies the locomotive energy, while the rider has the privilege of deciding on the goal and of guiding and powerful animal's movement. But only too often there arises between the ego and the id the not precisely ideal situation of the rider being obliged to guide the horse along the path by which it itself wants to go. — Sigmund Freud · 1933 The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. — Sigmund Freud · 1899 God at bottom is nothing but an exalted father. — Sigmund Freud · 1913 If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success with it. — Sigmund Freud · 1917 All 11 quotes →

Joseph Schumpeter8 quotes

The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop and factory to such concerns as U.S. Steel illustrate the same process of industrial mutation...That incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one. This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942 Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942 Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942 In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942 Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942 Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942 All 8 quotes →

Ludwig Wittgenstein7 quotes

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1921 What is your aim in philosophy?-To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1953 The human body is the best picture of the human soul. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1953 The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1922 Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it... It leaves everything as it is. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1953 Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1922 All 7 quotes →

Viktor Frankl7 quotes

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. — Viktor Frankl · 1946 Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. — Viktor Frankl · 1946 But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer. — Viktor Frankl · 1946 When we are no longer able to change a situation... We are challenged to change ourselves. — Viktor Frankl · 1946 Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. — Viktor Frankl · 1946 A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.” — Viktor Frankl · 1946 All 7 quotes →

Felix Frankfurter3 quotes

The history of liberty has largely been the history of observance of procedural safeguards. — Felix Frankfurter · 1943 In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives. — Felix Frankfurter · 1962 It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in controversies involving not very nice people. — Felix Frankfurter · 1950

Alfred Adler2 quotes

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest... The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. — Alfred Adler · 1956 The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with truth. — Alfred Adler · 1929

Bruno Bettelheim2 quotes

The most extreme agony is to feel that one has been utterly forsaken. — Bruno Bettelheim · 1979 Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect. — Bruno Bettelheim · 1987

Elias Canetti2 quotes

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. — Elias Canetti · 1972 There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. — Elias Canetti · 1960

Friedrich Hayek2 quotes

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. — Friedrich Hayek · 1944 I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice. — Friedrich Hayek · 1973

Ludwig von Mises2 quotes

Laissez faire does not mean: Let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: Let each individual choose how he wants to cooperate in the social division of labor; let the consumers determine what the entrepreneurs should produce. Planning means: Let the government alone choose and enforce its rulings by the apparatus of coercion and compulsion. — Ludwig von Mises · 1949 The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world. — Ludwig von Mises · 1949

Artur Schnabel1 quote

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides! — Artur Schnabel · 1958

Ivan Illich1 quote

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. — Ivan Illich · 1973

Konrad Lorenz1 quote

Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings. — Konrad Lorenz · 1965

Max Perutz1 quote

The priest persuades humble people to endure their hard lot; the politician urges them to rebel against it; and the scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether. — Max Perutz · 1989

Otto Neurath1 quote

We are like sailors who must rebuild their ship on the open sea, never able to dismantle it in dry-dock and to reconstruct it there out of the best materials. — Otto Neurath · 1921

Peter Drucker1 quote

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all. — Peter Drucker · 1963

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