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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
One is very crazy when in love.
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
The ego is not master in its own house.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
The goal of all life is death.
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
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A. P. Herbert
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24 September, 1890
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11 November, 1971
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