"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."
― Sigmund Freud
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"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
― Sigmund Freud |
"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
― Sigmund Freud |
"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
― Sigmund Freud |
"The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him."
― Sigmund Freud |
"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."
― Sigmund Freud
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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."
― Sigmund Freud
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"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
― Sigmund Freud |
"If you can't do it, give up!"
― Sigmund Freud |
"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
― Sigmund Freud |
"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."
― Sigmund Freud
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"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism."
― Sigmund Freud |
"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror."
― Sigmund Freud
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"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."
― Sigmund Freud |
"A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist."
― Sigmund Freud
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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?'"
― Sigmund Freud |
"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."
― Sigmund Freud |
"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent."
― Sigmund Freud |
"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization."
― Sigmund Freud |
"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."
― Sigmund Freud |
"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."
― Sigmund Freud
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