Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
SIGMUND FREUDMost people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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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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When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves.
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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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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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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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There are no mistakes.
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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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The madman is a dreamer awake.
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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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