When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
SIGMUND FREUDOne day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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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 only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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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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Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
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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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I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
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If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.
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Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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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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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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There 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.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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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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The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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The madman is a dreamer awake.
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