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.
SIGMUND FREUDMaturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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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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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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Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.
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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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From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
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It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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The ego is not master in its own house.
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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
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