“Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves.
But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.”
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But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.”
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“In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.”
― The Future of an Illusion
― The Future of an Illusion
“One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature, an antithesis. A thesis is only ever put forward in opposition to another thesis, or in defence of a new one.”
― Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-1987
― Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-1987
“One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.”
― The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms
― The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms
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