When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
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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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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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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The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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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 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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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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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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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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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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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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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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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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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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If you can’t do it, give up!
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History is just new people making old mistakes.
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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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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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The goal of all life is death.
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
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