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.
SIGMUND FREUDImmorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
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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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If youth knew; if age could.
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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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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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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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A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.
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Words 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.
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I have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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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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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.
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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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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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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
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It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
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Without love we fall ill.
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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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Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
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It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
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