The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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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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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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
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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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It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
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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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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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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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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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I have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.
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When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
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The goal of all life is death.
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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