In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
SIGMUND FREUDI have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
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The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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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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All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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There are no mistakes.
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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A strong egoism is a protection.
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The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
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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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It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
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Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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If you can’t do it, give up!
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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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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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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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Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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