Sigmund Freud quotes - page 7

If youth knew; if age could. (Sigmund Freud)
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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One is very crazy when in love.
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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
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The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. (Sigmund Freud)
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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Psychoanalysis ... should find a place among the methods whose aim is to bring about the highest ethical and intellectual development of the individual.
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success.
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We are and remain Jews. The others will only exploit us and will never understand and appreciate us. :. (Sigmund Freud)
Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?
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If you can't do it, give up!
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Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
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Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.
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