When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
SIGMUND FREUDNone believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
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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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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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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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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
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Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
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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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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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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
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Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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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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