When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
SIGMUND FREUDWhen someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
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In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
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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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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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