What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
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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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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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From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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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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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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If youth knew; if age could.
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The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
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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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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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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
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In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
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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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