Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
SIGMUND FREUDDogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.
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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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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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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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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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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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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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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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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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The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
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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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