It 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 FREUDIn the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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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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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
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The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
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If youth knew; if age could.
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The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
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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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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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The goal of all life is death.
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
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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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