103 books
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1904
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At the beginning of that interval a type-machine was a curiosity. The person who owned one was a curiosity, too. But now it is the other way about: the person who doesn't own one is a curiosity.
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― The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
― The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
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Writing on this subject in 1904 Freud gave the reason for our unshakable conviction of freedom of choice. He remarked that it is far stronger with trivial decisions than with weighty ones; with the latter we commonly feel that our inner nature compels us, that we really have no alternative. With the former, however, for example the arbitrary choice of a number, we discern no motive and therefore feel it is an uncaused act on the part of our ego. If we now subject the example to a psycho-analysis
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― The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud Volume One: The Formative Years and the Great Discoveries 1856-1900
― The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud Volume One: The Formative Years and the Great Discoveries 1856-1900
