What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
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If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.
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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
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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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Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.
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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
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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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Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.
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