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Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.
Sigmund Freud -
When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.
Sigmund Freud
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The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.
Sigmund Freud -
What psycho-analysis reveals in the transference phenomena of neurotics can also be observed in the lives of some normal people. The impression they give is of being pursued by a malignant fate or possessed by some 'daemonic' power; but psycho-analysis has always taken the view that their fate is for the most part arranged by themselves and determined by early infantile influences.
Sigmund Freud -
Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.
Sigmund Freud -
[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.
Sigmund Freud -
The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the father, clothed in the grandeur in which he once appeared to the small child.
Sigmund Freud -
Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to some vague abstraction which they have created for themselves; having done so they can pose before all the world as deists, as believers of God, and they can even boast that they have recognized a higher, purer concept of God, notwithstanding that their God is not nothing more than an insubstantial shadow and no longer the mighty personality of religious doctrines.
Sigmund Freud
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After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.
Sigmund Freud -
One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
Sigmund Freud -
I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.
Sigmund Freud -
No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit.".
Sigmund Freud -
When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
Sigmund Freud -
In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
Sigmund Freud
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...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.
Sigmund Freud -
History is just new people making old mistakes.
Sigmund Freud -
One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.
Sigmund Freud -
As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient times the two antagonistic streams, which one finds throughout in the estimates of dream life, were already noticeable. They distinguished between true and valuable dreams, sent to the dreamer to warn him or to foretell the future, and vain, fraudulent, and empty dreams, the object of which was to misguide or lead him to destruction.
Sigmund Freud -
Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.
Sigmund Freud -
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Sigmund Freud
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Sigmund Freud -
We are what we are because we have been what we have been.
Sigmund Freud -
I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.
Sigmund Freud -
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
Sigmund Freud