The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
SIGMUND FREUDIn the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.
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Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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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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The goal of all life is death.
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The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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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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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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From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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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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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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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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The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
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If you can’t do it, give up!
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Without love we fall ill.
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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.
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Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
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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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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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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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If youth knew; if age could.
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