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Sigmund Freud
Age: 83 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 6
Died: 1939
Died: September 23
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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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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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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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I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion
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A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.
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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
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A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love.
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I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.
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We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.
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Tobacco is the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America.
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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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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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History is just new people making old mistakes.
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The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
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There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.
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It almost looks like analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other two, much older-established, are the bringing up of children and the government of nations.
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No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.
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A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.
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A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
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If children could, if adults knew.
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