Sigmund Freud quotes - page 5

I don't rack my brains much over the subject of good and evil, but, on average, I haven't discovered much 'good' in men. Based on what I know of them, they are for the most part nothing but scoundrels. (Sigmund Freud)
But man's helplessness remains and along with it his longing for his father, and the gods. The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcise the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them. View quote
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Biology is truly a land of unlimited possibilities. We may expect it to give us the most surprising information, and we cannot guess what answers it will return in a few dozen years. ...They may be of a kind which will blow away the whole of our artificial structure of hypothesis. View quote
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...three of life's most important areas: work, love, and taking responsibility. View quote
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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. View quote
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The madman is a dreamer awake. View quote
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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. View quote
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Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it. View quote
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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. View quote
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. View quote
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation. (Sigmund Freud)
My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection. View quote
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables. View quote
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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. View quote
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A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love. View quote
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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. View quote
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There are no mistakes. View quote
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public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self. View quote
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream. View quote
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You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father. View quote
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No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself. (Sigmund Freud)
As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude. View quote
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It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it. View quote
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We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself. View quote
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In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself. View quote
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