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Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud
Age: 83 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 6
Died: 1939
Died: September 23
Essayist
Neurologist
Philosopher
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
Freiberg
Sigismund Schlomo Freud
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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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After all, we did not invent symbolism it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.
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If youth knew if age could.
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Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.
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We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.
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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.
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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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Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.
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Without love we fall ill.
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We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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If children could, if adults knew.
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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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Opposition is not necessarily enmity it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
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I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.
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The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.
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Children are completely egoistic they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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