The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
SIGMUND FREUDThe virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly.
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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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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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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 ego is not master in its own house.
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If you can’t do it, give up!
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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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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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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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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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
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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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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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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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