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.
SIGMUND FREUDMen are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Without love we fall ill.
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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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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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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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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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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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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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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I have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.
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The unconscious mind is that strange sub-world revealed through dreams, lapses, or Freudian slips. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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