Sigmund Freud Quotes
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A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and sisters; and it notices that the whole of their affection is lavished upon it once more whenever it arouses their anxiety by falling ill. It has now discovered a means of enticing out its parents' love and will make use of that means as soon as it has the necessary psychical material at its disposal for producing an illness.
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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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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder.
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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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Without love we fall ill.
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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.
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.
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A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
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The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.
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"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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There are no mistakes.
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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments.
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The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
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Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.
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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.
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Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are froward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough, or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. -- A love letter from Freud to his fiancée.
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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love...
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Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.