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.
SIGMUND FREUDMen are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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The madman is a dreamer awake.
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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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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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History is just new people making old mistakes.
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Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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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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The goal of all life is death.
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The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
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Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
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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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If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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