However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.


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The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary ...
WILHELM REICH
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature...
WILHELM STEKEL
You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than mon...
WILHELM REICH
I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you re...
WILHELM REICH
It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be...
WILHELM REICH
You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, eve...
WILHELM REICH
Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing t...
WILHELM REICH
You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he de...
WILHELM REICH
The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one...
WILHELM STEKEL
Anxiety is fear of one's self.
WILHELM STEKEL
The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms th...
WILHELM REICH
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature m...
WILHELM STEKEL
I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic e...
WILHELM REICH
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
GEORG WILHELM
In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive...
WILHELM WUNDT
Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense per...
WILHELM WUNDT
Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, wit...
WILHELM WUNDT
Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
WILHELM STEINITZ
The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the cont...
WILHELM WUNDT
I have a clear conscience.
WILHELM CANARIS
As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.
WILHELM FRICK
The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But the...
DOUG WILHELM
The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can ...
WILHELM OSTWALD
On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is g...
WILHELM DILTHEY
As soon as we step beyond the established boundaries of pure thermodynamic theory, we enter a trackl...
WILHELM WIEN
The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the conc...
WILHELM OSTWALD
Since we can produce all types of light by means of hot bodies, we can ascribe, to the radiation in ...
WILHELM WIEN
In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and fac...
WILHELM WUNDT
If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the ...
WILHELM KEITEL
Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
KAISER WILHELM
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the tota...
WILHELM DILTHEY
In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than ...
WILHELM OSTWALD
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destr...
WILHELM REICH
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensabl...
WILHELM WUNDT
On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, wh...
WILHELM WUNDT
No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but ra...
WILHELM DILTHEY
All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity...
WILHELM DILTHEY
The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychol...
WILHELM WUNDT
By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the...
WILHELM FRICK
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature m...
WILHELM STEKEL
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the matur...
WILHELM STEKEL
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
WILHELM DILTHEY
Stanford is the No. 7 team in the nation, and we were with them the whole way. I felt we raced a lot...
JOE WILHELM
My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.
WILHELM FRICK
This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Con...
WILHELM KEITEL
Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.
WILHELM KEITEL
I understand there are some differences between the hotel industry and the gaming industry. Why the ...
JOHN WILHELM
Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
WILHELM REICH
Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
WILHELM STEINITZ
The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always ...
WILHELM DILTHEY
Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold bet...
WILHELM WUNDT
Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediatel...
WILHELM OSTWALD
For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very...
WILHELM OSTWALD
From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the...
WILHELM WUNDT
The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hyp...
WILHELM WUNDT
Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the fact...
WILHELM WUNDT
According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of abso...
WILHELM WIEN
We have some really loyal people with us who helped to brand the Franklin name and reputation. We wi...
WILHELM MEYA
I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
WILHELM STEINITZ
Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game.
WILHELM STEINITZ
Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.
WILHELM STEINITZ
A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.
WILHELM STEINITZ
Sadistic brutality and mystical feeling go always hand in hand when the normal capacity for orgastic...
WILHELM REICH
The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regar...
WILHELM WUNDT
The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the in...
WILHELM WUNDT
The refutation of a sacrifice frequently consists in its acceptance.
WILHELM STEINITZ
To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one'...
WILHELM DILTHEY