The ego is not master in its own house.
SIGMUND FREUDA man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
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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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There are no mistakes.
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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
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It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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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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The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end.
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Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
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If youth knew; if age could.
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Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
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If you can’t do it, give up!
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It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
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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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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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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
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The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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