The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
SIGMUND FREUDThe dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
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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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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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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.
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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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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Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
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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 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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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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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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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
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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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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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