"My definition of modernism took a while to…" — Peter Gay
"My definition of modernism took a while to develop."
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10 Quotes by Peter Gay
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There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might…
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Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism,…
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My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.
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To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree…
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People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.
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And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by…
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Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
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What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
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I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with…
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More Definition Quotes
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a…
— Hannah Arendt
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I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor…
— Chinua Achebe
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I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every…
— Michele Bachmann
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I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the…
— Michele Bachmann
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
— James A. Baldwin
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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts…
— Saul Bellow
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
— Alan Bennett
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad…
— Wendell Berry
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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the…
— Donald Berwick
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That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there…
— Annie Besant
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Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
— Neal Boortz
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