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Sigmund Freud
Age: 83 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 6
Died: 1939
Died: September 23
Essayist
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Psychoanalyst
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The goal of all life is death
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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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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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In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.
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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.
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Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.
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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.
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Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to avoid sexual intercourse with members of the totem clan of the opposite sex.
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The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
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The sexual life of adult women is a dark continent for psychology.
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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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Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.
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It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
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