It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
SIGMUND FREUDWhen someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
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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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Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
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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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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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History is just new people making old mistakes.
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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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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Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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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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When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves.
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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