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Sigmund Freud Inspirational Quotes (245)

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It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
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That which we can't remember, we will repeat.
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Children are completely egoistic they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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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.
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We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.
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all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.
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The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.
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Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community.
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A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.
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So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.
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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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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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A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
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From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
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If children could, if adults knew.
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Not all men are worthy of love.
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What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm.
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Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
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I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible it has become my metier.
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When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.
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