If you can’t do it, give up!
SIGMUND FREUDIf you can’t do it, give up!
SIGMUND FREUDI cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
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 FREUDFlowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
SIGMUND FREUDExperience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
SIGMUND FREUDA man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
SIGMUND FREUDOne day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
SIGMUND FREUDI had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
SIGMUND FREUDThe paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
SIGMUND FREUDA man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
SIGMUND FREUDReligion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end.
SIGMUND FREUDWords have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.
SIGMUND FREUDWhen inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
SIGMUND FREUDHumanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
SIGMUND FREUDWhat progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
SIGMUND FREUDWhen one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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