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“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

tags: admiration, escape, false-standards, impossible, impression, measurement, power, science, success, true-value, underestimate, value, wealth

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“He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

tags: criticism, skeptic

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“All neurotics, and many others besides, take exception to the fact that 'inter urinas et faeces nascimur.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

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“In living organisms, nucleic acid molecules are the only indefinite hereditary replicators, or at least they were until the invention of language and music.”
― John Maynard Smith, The Major Transitions in Evolution

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“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
― Simone de Beauvoir