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.
SIGMUND FREUDHuman beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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A strong egoism is a protection.
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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
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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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A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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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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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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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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Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
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A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
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The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
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