Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
SIGMUND FREUDWhat progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
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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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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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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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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
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From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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History is just new people making old mistakes.
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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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The ego is not master in its own house.
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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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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