Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
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.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday..
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The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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The 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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A 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.
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Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly.
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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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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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Poets 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.
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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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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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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
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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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