Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.
SIGMUND FREUDThe more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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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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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
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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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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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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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Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday..
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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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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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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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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The ego is not master in its own house.
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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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