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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Without love we fall ill.
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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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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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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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It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
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Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly.
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History is just new people making old mistakes.
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. We become closed – not only to people’s pain – but also their happiness.
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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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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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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.
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The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
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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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