Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
SIGMUND FREUDMaturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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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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The ego is not master in its own house.
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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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Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.
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We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.
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Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
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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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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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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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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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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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Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday..
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