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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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Topic

Limits of language Language

Author

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. "Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung [Logical-Philosophical Treatise]." Annalen der Naturphilosophie [Annales of Natural Philosophy], 1921.

Current Citation

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, translated by Michael Beaney. Oxford University Press, 2023.

The great question that has never been answered…is what does a woman want?

Sigmund Freud

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Topic

Men and women

Speaker

Sigmund Freud

Statement Type

Question

Language

German

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Stated to Marie Bonaparte during their psychoanalytic session. 8 Dec. 1925.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Sigmund Freud

Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

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Topic

Civilization

Author

Sigmund Freud

Source

Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

Medium

Lecture

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Einführung in die Psychoanalyse [Introduction to Psychoanalysis]. 1915-1917, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, lecture 1. Lecture series.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. W. W. Norton & Company, 1977, lecture 1.

The ego's relation to the id might be compared with that of a rider to his horse. The horse supplies the locomotive energy, while the rider has the privilege of deciding on the goal and of guiding and powerful animal's movement. But only too often there arises between the ego and the id the not precisely ideal situation of the rider being obliged to guide the horse along the path by which it itself wants to go.

Sigmund Freud

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

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Sigmund Freud

Source

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

Genre

Psychological literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

German

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Freud, Sigmund. New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, translated by James Strachey. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990, lecture 31. Originally published as Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einfuhrung in die Psychoanalyse [New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis]. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1933, lecture 31.

This war did not bear the characteristics of the previous conflicts among the European nations to which we were accustomed. To an ever increasing degree it began to be generally realized that the reasons for this conflict were no longer to be sought in the usual interests even if plausible of the various nations, but that in reality it was one of those elementary struggles which shaking the foundations of the world but once in a thousand years, introduce a new millennium.

Adolf Hitler

Speech to the Reichstag, April 26, 1942

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World War II

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Adolf Hitler

Source

Speech to the Reichstag, April 26, 1942

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

German

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Hitler, Adolf. Speech to the Reichstag. 26 Apr. 1942, Kroll Opera House, Berlin, Germany.

God at bottom is nothing but an exalted father.

Sigmund Freud

Totem and Taboo

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Topic

Nature of God God

Author

Sigmund Freud

Source

Totem and Taboo

Genre

Sociology

Language

German

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Totem und Tabu Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker [Totem and Taboo Some Similarities in the Soul Life of the Wild and the Neurotic]. Beacon Press, 1913, ch. 4, sect. 6. Originally published in Imago, c. 1912.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Sigmund Freud

The Interpretation of Dreams

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Interpretation and analysis Dreams

Author

Sigmund Freud

Source

The Interpretation of Dreams

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1899 1890s 19th century

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Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Die Traumdeutung [The Interpretation of Dreams]. Leipzig und Wien: Franz Deuticke, 1900, ch. 7, sect. E.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams, translated and edited by James Strachey. Basic Books, 2010, ch. 7, sect. E.

The great masses of the people...more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one.

Adolf Hitler

Mein Kampf

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Topic

Disinformation Politics and lies Politics The masses

Author

Adolf Hitler

Source

Mein Kampf

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

German

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf [My Struggle]. Vol. 1, Franz Eher Nachfolger GmbH, 1925, ch. 6.

What is your aim in philosophy?-To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations

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Topic

Purpose of philosophy Philosophy

Author

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source

Philosophical Investigations

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

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Original Citation

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophische Untersuchungen [Philosophical Investigations]. Suhrkamp, 1953, pt. 1.

Current Citation

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, et. al., edited by P. M. S. Hacker and Joachim Schulte. Wiley Blackwell, 2009, pt. 1.

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success with it.

Sigmund Freud

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Effects of childhood Mothers and sons

Author

Sigmund Freud

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. "Eine Kindheitserinnerung aus 'Dichtung und Wahrheit [A Childhood Recollection from 'Dichtung und Warheit [Poetry and Truth].'" Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften [Journal of the Application of Psychoanalysis to the Humanities]. Vol. 5, 1917, pp. 49–57.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. "A Childhood Recollection from 'Dichtung Und Wahrheit.'" The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works, translated by James Strachey. Vol. 17, Vintage, 2001.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of observance of procedural safeguards.

Felix Frankfurter

McNabb v. United States

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Topic

Rule of law Freedom

Author

Felix Frankfurter

Source

McNabb v. United States

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Frankfurter, Felix. United States, Supreme Court. McNabb v. United States. United States Reports, vol. 318, 1 Mar. 1943, pp. 339-349. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/318/332/.

The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop and factory to such concerns as U.S. Steel illustrate the same process of industrial mutation...That incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one. This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.

Joseph Schumpeter

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

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Capitalism

Author

Joseph Schumpeter

Source

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

Genre

Economic literature Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Schumpeter, Joseph Alois. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. Harper & Brothers, 1942, pt. 2, ch. 7.

Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

Konrad Lorenz

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Man and animals

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Konrad Lorenz

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Lorenz, Konrad. Quoted in New York Times Magazine. 11 Apr. 1965.

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

Adolf Hitler

Mein Kampf

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Propaganda

Author

Adolf Hitler

Source

Mein Kampf

Genre

Political literature Autobiography and memoir

Language

German

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf [My Struggle]. Vol. 1, Franz Eher Nachfolger GmbH, 1925, ch. 6.

Happiness is the deferred fulfillment of a prehistoric wish. That is why wealth brings so little happiness; money is not an infantile wish.

Sigmund Freud

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Happiness

Author

Sigmund Freud

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Definition

Language

German

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

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Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Letter to Wilhelm Fliess. 16 Jan. 1898.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904, translated and edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Harvard University Press, 1985.

Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they could have no difficulty in exterminating one another to the last man. They know this, and hence comes a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness and their mood of anxiety.

Sigmund Freud

Civilization and Its Discontents

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Topic

Downsides of technology

Author

Sigmund Freud

Source

Civilization and Its Discontents

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

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Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Das Unbehagen in der Kultur [The Discomfort in Culture]. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag Wien, 1930, pt. 8.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents, translated by James Strachey. W. W. Norton & Company, 2021, pt. 8.

I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Artistic expression Music

Author

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1777 1770s 18th century

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Original Citation

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Letter to Leopold Mozart. 8 Nov. 1777.

Current Citation

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. The Letters of Mozart and His Family, edited by Emily Anderson. Springer, 2016.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations

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Topic

Human body Body and soul

Author

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source

Philosophical Investigations

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

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Original Citation

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophische Untersuchungen [Philosophical Investigations]. Suhrkamp, 1953, pt. 2.

Current Citation

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, et. al., edited by P. M. S. Hacker and Joachim Schulte. Wiley Blackwell, 2009, pt. 2.

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

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Topic

Taking action

Author

Peter Drucker

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Drucker, Peter. "Managing for Business Effectiveness." Harvard Business Review, 1963.

Being totally honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud

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Topic

Honesty Personal development

Author

Sigmund Freud

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Advice

Language

German

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Letter to Wilhelm Fliess. 15 Oct. 1897.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904, translated and edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Harvard University Press, 1985.