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Sigmund Freud
Age: 83 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 6
Died: 1939
Died: September 23
Essayist
Neurologist
Philosopher
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
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Sigismund Schlomo Freud
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The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.
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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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Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
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Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.
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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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If children could, if adults knew.
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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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Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
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We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.
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The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.
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A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.
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We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.
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He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
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The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.
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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
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The goal of all life is death
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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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