The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
SIGMUND FREUDUnexpressed 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.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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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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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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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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A strong egoism is a protection.
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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 are no mistakes.
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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The ego is not master in its own house.
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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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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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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