What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
SIGMUND FREUDIf you can’t do it, give up!
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end.
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There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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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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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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If youth knew; if age could.
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We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.
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The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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