Sigmund Freud Quotes
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We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.
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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
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Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.
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Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers.
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I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem.
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But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.
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If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.
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Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger of coming to mental harm, being unable to cope with the idea of a godless, purposeless life.
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The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ, the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark times every son had longed to do.
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The goal of all life is death...
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The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.
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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
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It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.
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Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
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The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.
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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.
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In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to man's happiness, susceptibility to culture and moral control are no better than this, the question cannot but arise whether we are not overrating its necessity for mankind, and whether we do wisely in basing our cultural demands upon it.
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That which we can't remember, we will repeat.
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Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.