Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
SIGMUND FREUDLife, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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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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History is just new people making old mistakes.
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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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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Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.
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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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If youth knew; if age could.
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The goal of all life is death.
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Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
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I have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.
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If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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