When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
SIGMUND FREUDMy love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
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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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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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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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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
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Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
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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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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
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The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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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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Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
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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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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.
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Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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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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I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
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