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.
SIGMUND FREUDWords are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
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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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It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.
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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
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There are no mistakes.
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Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
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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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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.
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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
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If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
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I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
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When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
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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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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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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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Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.
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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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