Sigmund Freud on confusion
Sigmund Freud103 quotes“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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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.
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday..
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud The goal of all life is death.
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud 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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Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.
Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.
Ray DalioRay Dalio I think honestly, some people who think they’re gay, they’re confused.
Stevie WonderStevie Wonder There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.
Mitch AlbomMitch Albom As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
Quentin TarantinoQuentin Tarantino Do not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.
Lysa TerKeurstLysa TerKeurst What I’m not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.
Stevie WonderStevie Wonder Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
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