How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
SIGMUND FREUDThere 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.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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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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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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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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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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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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Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.
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Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
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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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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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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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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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