A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
SIGMUND FREUDI had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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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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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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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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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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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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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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All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.
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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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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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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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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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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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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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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 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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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.
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