Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
SIGMUND FREUDWhoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
SIGMUND FREUDKnowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
SIGMUND FREUDMost people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
SIGMUND FREUDThe liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
SIGMUND FREUDHow bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
SIGMUND FREUDWithout love we fall ill.
SIGMUND FREUDPoets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
SIGMUND FREUDA 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.
SIGMUND FREUDThe goal of all life is death.
SIGMUND FREUDThere 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.
SIGMUND FREUDHuman beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly.
SIGMUND FREUDThe ego is not master in its own house.
SIGMUND FREUDWhat progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
SIGMUND FREUDIt 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.
SIGMUND FREUDA strong egoism is a protection.
SIGMUND FREUDThe 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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