The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
SIGMUND FREUDBeauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
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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 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.
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If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
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Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.
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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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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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I have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
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Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
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