Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."
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"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."
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"If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it."
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"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts."
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"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?"
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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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"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."
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"I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."
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"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."
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"Time spent with cats is never wasted."
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"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."
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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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"What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree."
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"Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone."
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"The goal of all life is death."
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"Love and work... work and love, that's all there is."
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"If youth knew if age could."
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"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water."
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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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"We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love."
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"Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being."
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