The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
SIGMUND FREUDWhat progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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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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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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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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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. We become closed – not only to people’s pain – but also their happiness.
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It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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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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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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Without love we fall ill.
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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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It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
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