Sigmund Freud Quotes
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The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
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Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?
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Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.
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I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.
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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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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.
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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.
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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
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I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion.
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We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.
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It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.
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The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.
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The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
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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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To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.
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Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.
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Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.
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Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.
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If youth knew; if age could.
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I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.