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Sigmund Freud Inspirational Quotes (245)

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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.
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All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
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Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free.
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[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real.
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History is just new people making old mistakes.
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What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.
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The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence by asking this question one is merely admitting to a store of unsatisfied libido to which something else must have happened, a kind of fermentation leading to sadness and depression.
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Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity.
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There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.
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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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Thinking in pictures is, therefore, only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, it stands nearer to unconscious processes than does thinking in words, and it is unquestionably older than the latter both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.
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In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.
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Another technique for fending off suffering is the employment of the displacements of libido which our mental apparatus permits of and through which its function gains so much in flexibility. The task here is that of shifting the instinctual aims in such a way that they cannot come up against frustration from the external world.
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We are what we are because we have been what we have been.
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The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.
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I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps they are more concerned with not thinking of it.
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Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.
Sigmund Freud
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