When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
SIGMUND FREUDThe meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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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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The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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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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From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end.
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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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Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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