Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
SIGMUND FREUDNeurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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If youth knew; if age could.
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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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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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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.
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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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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
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Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
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I have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.
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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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If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
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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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