Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
SIGMUND FREUDWords 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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All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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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 mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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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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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end.
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