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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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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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The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.
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The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.
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The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.
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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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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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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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I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.
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Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It is said that all great men are bound to retain some infantile part. Even as an adult he continued to play, and this was another reason why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries.
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The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.
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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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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
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I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion
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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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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
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A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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