Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
SIGMUND FREUDCivilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.
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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 virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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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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Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.
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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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The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
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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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The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
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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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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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