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> [“In the religious myths, the creative will appears personified in God, and man already feels himself guilty when he assumes himself to be like God, that is, to ascribe this will to himself. In the heroic myths on the contrary,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-rank/in-the-religious-myths-the-creative-will-appears-personified-in-god/)

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## More by Otto Rank

> [“The struggle of the artist against the art-ideology, against the creative impulse and even against his own work also shows itself in his attitude…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-rank/the-struggle-of-the-artist-against-the-art-ideology-against-the/)

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> [For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-rank/for-the-whole-consequence-of-evolution-from-blind-impulse-through/)

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> [“In the psychical sphere there are no facts, but only interpretations of them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-rank/in-the-psychical-sphere-there-are-no-facts-but-only-interpretations/)

[Otto Rank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otto-rank/)

> [Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-rank/some-refuse-the-loan-of-life-to-avoid-the-debt-of-death/)

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> [Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-rank/thou-shalt-not-give-birth-reluctantly/)

[Otto Rank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otto-rank/)

> [Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-rank/thou-shalt-not-covet-thy-neighbor-s-wife-for-there-are-plenty-of/)

[Otto Rank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otto-rank/)

> [Art is life's dream interpretation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-rank/art-is-life-s-dream-interpretation/)

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> [For the only therapy is life. The patient must learn to live, to live with his split, his conflict, his ambivalence, which no therapy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-rank/for-the-only-therapy-is-life-the-patient-must-learn-to-live-to-live/)

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> [The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-rank/the-new-meaning-of-soul-is-creativity-and-mysticism-these-will-become/)

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> [The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-rank/the-correct-didactic-analysis-is-one-that-does-not-in-the-least/)

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> [“In the religious myths, the creative will appears personified in God, and man already feels himself guilty when he assumes himself to be like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-rank/in-the-religious-myths-the-creative-will-appears-personified-in-god/)

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> [Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-rank/man-works-primarily-for-his-own-self-respect-and-not-for-others-or/)

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> [There is already too much truth in the world - an overproduction which apparently cannot be consumed!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-rank/there-is-already-too-much-truth-in-the-world-an-overproduction-which/)

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