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Sigmund Freud Inspirational Quotes (246)

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If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness, and it guides - by - precepts - backed by the full force of its authority.
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The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind.
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
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Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses.
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Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.
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In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.
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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
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My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.
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The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.
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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
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Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
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Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.
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It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.
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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
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The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.
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Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
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But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
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The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.
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One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.
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If it's not one thing, it's your mother.
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The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in the hypothesis that the mental apparatus endeavours to keep the quantity of excitation present in it as low as possible or at least to keep it constant.
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It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.
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