Peter Gay Quotes

"My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right."
- Peter Gay
(Related: Right)

"And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically."
- Peter Gay
(Related: History, Interest, Understanding)

"There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence."
- Peter Gay
(Related: Accomplishment, Aggression, Example, Existence, Sense)

"People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself."
- Peter Gay
(Related: People, Forget, Now, Reason, Thinking)

"My definition of modernism took a while to develop."
- Peter Gay

"What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism."
- Peter Gay

"To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree."
- Peter Gay
(Related: Liberal, Temperament)