"To have a liberal temperament is a kind……" — Peter Gay
"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 terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree."
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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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People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.
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My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
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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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