Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
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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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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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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If youth knew; if age could.
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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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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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Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
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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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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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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 ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
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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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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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If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
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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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When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves.
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