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"When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has."
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"Sitting makes us think of standingOur current stance keeps on demanding We wish to fly without the wings Puppets move before pulling the strings."

"The leaves of hopes which have destined words in the body of the thought have settled to the ground. This is the world."

"The world will see true peace when there are no boundaries of religion and the religion of all will be pure unconditional love."

"Don't be imprisoned by others perception of reality."

"We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening."

"... the objects which we admire have no absolute value in themselves..."

"To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence."

"We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become."

"Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own."
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"That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal."


"We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of which we can increase out power and in accordance with which we can arrange our life. If this belief is an illusion, then we are in the same position as you. But science has given us evidence by its numerous and important successes that it is no illusion."


"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition."


"A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist."


"The child is brought up to know its social duties by means of a system of love-rewards and punishments, and in this way it is taught that its security in life depends on its parents (and, subsequently, other people) loving it and being able to believe in its love for them."


"I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador - an adventurer, if you want it translated - with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort."


"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."
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