“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”

—  Sigmund Freud

1920s, The Future of an Illusion (1927)
Context: The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endlessly repeated rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which it may be optimistic about the future of mankind, but in itself it signifies not a little.

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Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psycho… 1856–1939

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