Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
SIGMUND FREUDKnowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
SIGMUND FREUDReligion 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.
SIGMUND FREUDMy love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
SIGMUND FREUDNeurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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.
SIGMUND FREUDThe behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
SIGMUND FREUDAll family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
SIGMUND FREUDWords 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.
SIGMUND FREUDIf you can’t do it, give up!
SIGMUND FREUDThe meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
SIGMUND FREUDWhen one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
SIGMUND FREUDWhoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
SIGMUND FREUDTime spent with cats is never wasted.
SIGMUND FREUDFlowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
SIGMUND FREUDA woman should soften but not weaken a man.
SIGMUND FREUDThe intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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