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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind.

Freud (from The Future of an Illusion, 1927)

[The trouble with the intellect, Dr. Freud, is that it speaks with many voices, some of which flatly contradict one another. In other words, conclusions arrived at through intellectual processes are not necessarily valid. Now Freud might reply, “If we can’t trust reason and the intellect, what can we trust?” Well, according to the great logician Bertrand Russell, ‘Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.’]

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