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Otto Rank
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Quotes by Otto Rank
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It seems that life, in order to maintain itself, must revolt every so often against man’s ceaseless attempts to master its irrational forces with his mind.
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There is already too much truth in the world – an overproduction which apparently cannot be consumed!
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There is already too much truth in the world - an overproduction which apparently cannot be consumed!
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For the only therapy is life. The patient must learn to live, to live with his split, his conflict, his ambivalence, which no therapy can take away, for if it could, it would take with it the actual spring of life.
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Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by ones fellowmen.
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For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work.
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