Sigmund Freud Quotes
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There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
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From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one another to the last man. They know this, and hence comes a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness and their mood of anxiety.
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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
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Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
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It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.
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The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.
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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly suprised at the weakness of his intellect.
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Tobacco is the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America.
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The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one is merely admitting to a store of unsatisfied libido to which something else must have happened, a kind of fermentation leading to sadness and depression.
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We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.
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I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.
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An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols.
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A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.
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When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.
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There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.
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I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.
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We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.
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We must love or we grow ill.
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Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.
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Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?
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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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The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.