Sigmund Freud quotes - page 8

I will cure all the incurable nervous cases and through you I shall be healthy. (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. View quote
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Aggressiveness was not created by property. View quote
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The common characteristic of all perversions, on the other hand, is that they have abandoned reproduction as their aim. View quote
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He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. View quote
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The idea of a God was not a lie but a device of the unconscious which needed to be decoded by psychology. A personal god was nothing more than an exalted father-figure: desire for such a deity sprang from infantile yearnings for a powerful, protective father, for justice and fairness and for life to go on forever. God is simply a projection of these desires, feared and worshiped by human beings out of an abiding sense of helplessness. Religion belonged to the infancy of the human race; it had been a necessary stage in the transition from childhood to maturity. It had promoted ethical values which were essential to society. Now that humanity had come of age, however, it should be left behind. View quote
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One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. View quote
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Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard. View quote
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What does a woman want? View quote
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Women oppose change, receive passively, and add nothing of their own. View quote
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The mind is like an iceberg. (Sigmund Freud)
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice. View quote
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The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture. 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. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that "I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact. View quote
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One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go. View quote
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. View quote
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When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. View quote
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Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill. View quote
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The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father. View quote
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If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death. View quote
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When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature. (Sigmund Freud)
Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love. View quote
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We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth. View quote
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The very emphasis of the commandment Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours. 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. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer. View quote
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