The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
SIGMUND FREUDReligion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday..
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If youth knew; if age could.
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The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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The ego is not master in its own house.
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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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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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When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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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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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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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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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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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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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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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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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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Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.
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Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
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