Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
SIGMUND FREUDWhere they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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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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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.
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There are no mistakes.
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end.
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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
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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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I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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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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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
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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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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
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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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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
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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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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday..
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