When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
SIGMUND FREUDThe only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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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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Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.
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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
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Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
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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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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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