Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
SIGMUND FREUDKnowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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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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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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If you can’t do it, give up!
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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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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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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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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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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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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I have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.
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