Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
SIGMUND FREUDI’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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The unconscious mind is that strange sub-world revealed through dreams, lapses, or Freudian slips. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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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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When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves.
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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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I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
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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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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
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All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
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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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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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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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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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