Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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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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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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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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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If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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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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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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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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If youth knew; if age could.
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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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Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday..
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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’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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