Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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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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Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. We become closed – not only to people’s pain – but also their happiness.
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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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Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion’s eleventh commandment is “Thou shalt not question.
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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
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The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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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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