What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
quote in E. Jones, Sigmund Freud: Life and Work, vol.3, pt.1, ch.4 (1957)
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
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