If youth knew; if age could.
SIGMUND FREUDWere we fully to understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.
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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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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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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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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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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If you can’t do it, give up!
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The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
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A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
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I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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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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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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I have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.
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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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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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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
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From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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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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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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