"He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore."
― Sigmund Freud |
"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."
― Sigmund Freud |
"Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them."
― Sigmund Freud |
"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."
― Sigmund Freud |
"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
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"One is very crazy when in love."
― Sigmund Freud
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"Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be."
― Sigmund Freud
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"I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."
― Sigmund Freud |
"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."
― Sigmund Freud
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"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts."
― Sigmund Freud
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"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."
― Sigmund Freud |
"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."
― Sigmund Freud
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"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition."
― Sigmund Freud
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"The first requisite of civilization is that of justice."
― Sigmund Freud
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"We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality."
― Sigmund Freud |
"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."
― Sigmund Freud
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
― Sigmund Freud |
"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."
― Sigmund Freud
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