When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
SIGMUND FREUDCivilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.
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The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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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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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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The ego is not master in its own house.
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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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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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Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
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Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
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It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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The madman is a dreamer awake.
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A 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.
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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
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I have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.
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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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