Sigmund Freud
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
—Sigmund Freud
Posted on September 26, 2001 at 3:49 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem.
—Sigmund Freud, The Letters of Sigmund Freud
Posted on March 19, 2001 at 5:12 PM
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