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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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end.
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Without love we fall ill.
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Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.
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Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday..
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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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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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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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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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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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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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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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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
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