Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
SIGMUND FREUDWere we fully to understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
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There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.
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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
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It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
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When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves.
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.
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Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
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The unconscious mind is that strange sub-world revealed through dreams, lapses, or Freudian slips. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
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