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“I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.”

Men Culture Powerful Power Independent Obstacles Tendencies Aggression Disposition Innate

Author:Sigmund Freud

“A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.”

Men Culture Memories Watches Power Talent Skills Aids Debate Prisoner Dominant Beggar Get Money Misers

Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.”

Men Wells Made Ends Culture Power Pure Determination Train Mixtures Impediments

Book:The Conduct of Life

Source: The Conduct of Life