When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
SIGMUND FREUDHumanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
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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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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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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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Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.
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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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There are no mistakes.
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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.
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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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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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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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