Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
SIGMUND FREUDPoets 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.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.
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The madman is a dreamer awake.
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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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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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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. We become closed – not only to people’s pain – but also their happiness.
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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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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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All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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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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