Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
SIGMUND FREUDMaturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
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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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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
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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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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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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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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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It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.
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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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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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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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There are no mistakes.
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