None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
SIGMUND FREUDThe creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
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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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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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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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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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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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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.
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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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Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday..
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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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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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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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