Sigmund Freud quotes - page 7

One is very crazy when in love. (Sigmund Freud)
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. View quote
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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. View quote
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The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him. View quote
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. View quote
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. View quote
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Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. View quote
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. (Sigmund Freud)
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times. View quote
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. View quote
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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. View quote
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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them. View quote
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Psychoanalysis ... should find a place among the methods whose aim is to bring about the highest ethical and intellectual development of the individual. View quote
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success. View quote
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We are and remain Jews. The others will only exploit us and will never understand and appreciate us. :. View quote
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Where does a thought go when it's forgotten? View quote
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If you can't do it, give up! View quote
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Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. (Sigmund Freud)
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect. View quote
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A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. View quote
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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. View quote
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Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state - admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological - in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. View quote
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