.It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance with the rules of experience and with due regard to reality, that he should entrust precisely what affects him most nearly to the care of an authority which claims as its prerogative freedom from all the rules of rational thought. Sigmund Freud
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s quote, “It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance with the rules of experience and with due regard to reality, that he should entrust precisely what affects him most nearly to the care of an authority which claims as its prerogative freedom from all the rules of rational thought.” perfectly describes the personality trait of "entrusting irrational things to irrational people." In other words, we entrust our most valuable belongings to those who don't have a clue about how to take care of them. That's not going to end well.

Source: New Introductory Lectures On Psychoanalysis

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