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"53 Sigmund Freud Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 6 May 1856. Died: 23 September 1939 | Neurologist | Psychologist |

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

People Freedom Involve Want
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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Far Imagine Immoral Men
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The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

Aggression Culture Disposition Independent
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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?'

Able Answer Answered Been
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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.

Accord Complexes Conduct Eliminate
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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Does Gained Hearing Intellect
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Civilization First Founder Human
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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.

Adult Average Between Child
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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Children Feel Intensely Needs
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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.

Average Ego Every Extent
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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

Certain Certain Degree Degree Drive
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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Activities Dreams Interpretation Knowledge
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One is very crazy when in love.
Crazy Love Very When
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We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Against Love Never Suffering
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America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

America Giant A Mistake
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Ages Books Burned Burning
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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

Built Civilization Extent Impossible
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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.

Alone Also Anticipate Businessman
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The goal of all life is death.

Death Goal Of Life
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If youth knew; if age could.

Age Could Knew Youth
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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

Become Idea Long Men
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Ambiguity Inability Neurosis Tolerate
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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Afraid Am America Experiment
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Any Cannot Childhood Father
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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.

Been Call Degree Happiness
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Derives Desires Fact Falls
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The ego is not master in its own house.

Ego House Master Own
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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.

Act Affect Anxiety Birth
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Being Entirely Exercise Good
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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Become Give God Grown
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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Any Before Civilization Gift
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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.

Every Forcing Him Life
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

Enmity Made Merely Misused
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Attainable Becoming Cannot Come
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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

Analogy Decide Feel Home
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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Becomes Humble Love Loves
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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Humanness Love Our Work
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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

Away Complain Defend Her
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A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Act Disgrace Every Individual
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Angry Angry Person Began Cast
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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Another Civilized Civilized Society Disintegration
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Just A Sometimes Cigar
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Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

Love Is Work There
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If you can't do it, give up!

Give Up You Attitude
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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Been Before Everywhere Find
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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
Crazy Dreams Most Often
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Conflicts Emotions Flowers Look
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Above Bulk Iceberg Like
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Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Belief Forced Just No-One
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Been Conqueror Favorite Feeling
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Sigmund Freud Quotes & Sayings