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.
SIGMUND FREUDThe meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
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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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Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.
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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.
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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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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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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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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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History is just new people making old mistakes.
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
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Without love we fall ill.
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Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
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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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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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