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Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
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If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.
Sigmund Freud
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A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
Sigmund Freud -
The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
Sigmund Freud -
Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.
Sigmund Freud -
Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other.
Sigmund Freud -
The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can best identify it with the 'cortical homunculus' of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces.
Sigmund Freud -
A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.
Sigmund Freud
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All that matters is love and work.
Sigmund Freud -
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
Sigmund Freud -
Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.
Sigmund Freud -
I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.
Sigmund Freud -
These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of the oldest, strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind.
Sigmund Freud -
I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.
Sigmund Freud
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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
Sigmund Freud -
The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.
Sigmund Freud -
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
Sigmund Freud -
It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.
Sigmund Freud -
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Sigmund Freud -
Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
Sigmund Freud
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The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.
Sigmund Freud -
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud -
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud -
Opposition is not necessarily enmity.
Sigmund Freud