That night he wrote in his diary, "Challenge a remaining taboo." It was that simple. He had always wanted to understand genius, and now he had the formula. Freud, living in an age that prized its own seeming rationality, had found one of the remaining taboos and dared to think beyond it: he discovered infant sexuality and the unconscious, among other things. Galileo had gone beyond the taboo "Thou shalt not question Aristotle." Every great discovery had been the breaking of a taboo. . Robert Anton Wilson
I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?
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Jess C. Scott
The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.
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Judith Lewis Herman
She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have...
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Tove Jansson
Many of us have this mind-set which considers self-promotion a taboo.
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Abhishek Ratna
There is no definitive answer as to why cannibalism provides us with such stimulation, although what is clear, and what remains extremely disturbing for me, is our increasing desensitization to violence and gore - a trait that does not bode well for the future.
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Bill Schutt
More Quotes By Robert Anton Wilson
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
Belief is the death of intelligence.
...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
