Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly.
SIGMUND FREUDWhen someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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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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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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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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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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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. We become closed – not only to people’s pain – but also their happiness.
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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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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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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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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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I have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.
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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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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
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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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Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.
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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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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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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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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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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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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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The madman is a dreamer awake.
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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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