The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
SIGMUND FREUDThe madman is a dreamer awake.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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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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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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The goal of all life is death.
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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
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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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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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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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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
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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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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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