I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
SIGMUND FREUDI cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
SIGMUND FREUDMaturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
SIGMUND FREUDImmorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
SIGMUND FREUDThe only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
SIGMUND FREUDOne day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
SIGMUND FREUDWhen one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
SIGMUND FREUDBeing entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
SIGMUND FREUDWhat progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
SIGMUND FREUDNo, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
SIGMUND FREUDThe 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.
SIGMUND FREUDIt is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
SIGMUND FREUDKnowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
SIGMUND FREUDCrystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
SIGMUND FREUDA 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.
SIGMUND FREUDIf youth knew; if age could.
SIGMUND FREUDWords are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
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