Quotation

Spring 2011

Quotations submitted by readers of the website, selected as having some connection to psychoanalytic understanding.
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Diary entry '1.5.79' by Frederic Raphael

The greatest danger to world peace is the emergence of a state where people have learned to be decent, prosperous and unaggressive. Envy will insist that such a place is an unendurable affront to the greedy, contentious and treacherous rest of the world.

The decline of expectation..... can be hailed as a welcome form of modesty. The problem is, what
are we to find worthwhile in life.....


 


Frederic Raphael