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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

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Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

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The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

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Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

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What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

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To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

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At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Psychologist

Born: February 2nd, 1859

Died: July 8th, 1939

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