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The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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Man's Search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a 'secondary rationalization' of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning... Man, however, is able to live and even to die for the sake of his ideals and values!
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The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment.
If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.
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I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making.
Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.
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The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.
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Everybody wants a solution on how to help their dogs, but we can't really see the problem until we reconnect ourselves to our instinctual self.