A strong egoism is a protection.
SIGMUND FREUDCivilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves.
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Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
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The goal of all life is death.
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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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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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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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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
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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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A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
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Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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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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