The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
SIGMUND FREUDThe ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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 mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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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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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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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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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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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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All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
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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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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.
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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
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