The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
SIGMUND FREUDEverywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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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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Words 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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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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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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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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If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
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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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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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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
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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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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.
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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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