In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
SIGMUND FREUDIf it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
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A strong egoism is a protection.
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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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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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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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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
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All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
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Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
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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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Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion’s eleventh commandment is “Thou shalt not question.
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