There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
“Cotton Mather lusted all his life for the presidency of Harvard, a post his father had held, and which the son affected to despise,… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground of "critical… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
“The need to live by secure, sharply etched classifications is buried deep in the human mind and one of its earliest demands; simplicity allays… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use.… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
