"If youth knew; if age could."
― Sigmund Freud
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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."
― Sigmund Freud |
"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy."
― Sigmund Freud |
"The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture."
― Sigmund Freud |
"Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home."
― Sigmund Freud |
"The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious."
― Sigmund Freud
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"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."
― Sigmund Freud
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"Love and work..... work and love, that's all there is."
― Sigmund Freud |
"We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love."
― Sigmund Freud |
"The ego is not master in its own house."
― Sigmund Freud |
"Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another."
― Sigmund Freud
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"It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct."
― Sigmund Freud |
"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."
― Sigmund Freud
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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."
― Sigmund Freud |
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"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water."
― Sigmund Freud |
"The goal of all life is death."
― Sigmund Freud |
"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises."
― Sigmund Freud |
"Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake."
― Sigmund Freud
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"Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief."
― Sigmund Freud |
"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."
― Sigmund Freud
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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."
― Sigmund Freud
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