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.
SIGMUND FREUDDogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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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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I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
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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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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
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The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
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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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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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The madman is a dreamer awake.
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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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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
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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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Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
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