Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
SIGMUND FREUDDreams 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.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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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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We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.
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The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
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Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
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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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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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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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Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
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Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
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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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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
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