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    It is perhaps not entirely so, though it has often been said, that man makes his God in his own image. Rather does he create Him in the image of his cravings and dreams- in the image of what man wants to be. God making could be part of the process by which a society realizes its aspirations: it first embodies them in the conception of a particular God, and then proceeds to imitate that God. The confidence requisite for attempting the unprecedented is most effectively generated by the fiction that in realizing the new we are imitating rather than originating. Our preoccupation with heaven can be part of an effort to find precedents for the unprecedented.

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There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man read more

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When we can't dream any longer, we die.

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Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by read more

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there read more

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To be truly selfish one needs a degree of self-esteem. The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than read more

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It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

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A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly read more

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