From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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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A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
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There are no mistakes.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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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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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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The goal of all life is death.
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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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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Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
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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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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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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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History is just new people making old mistakes.
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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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A strong egoism is a protection.
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There 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.
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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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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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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
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If you can’t do it, give up!
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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
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It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.
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