Peter Gay Quotes

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• 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…
• Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.
• My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.
• To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a…
• People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.
• My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
• And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.
• Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
• What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
• I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.

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