When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
SIGMUND FREUDExperience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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Unexpressed 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.
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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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If youth knew; if age could.
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The ego is not master in its own house.
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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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Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday..
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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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The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
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The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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History is just new people making old mistakes.
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Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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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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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
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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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If you can’t do it, give up!
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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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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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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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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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