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Sigmund Freud Inspirational Quotes (245)

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Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.
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At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.
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We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
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Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry
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To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.
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If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman she will be all ears.
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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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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
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Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.
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It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.
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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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The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death.
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Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.
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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
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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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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.
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The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the father, clothed in the grandeur in which he once appeared to the small child.
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Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.
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But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
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An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols.
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I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.
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