Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.
SIGMUND FREUDA 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.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
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Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
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Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
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A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
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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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I have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
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Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion’s eleventh commandment is “Thou shalt not question.
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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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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