Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
SIGMUND FREUDFlowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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Without love we fall ill.
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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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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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Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
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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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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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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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