Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the small matters in life one should think long and hard, but when it comes to the big… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“We are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked.… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The child is brought up to know its social duties by means of a system of love-rewards and punishments, and in this… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Thus I must contradict you when you go on to argue that men are completely unable to do without the consolation of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior to be the purpose and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“But hypnotism had been of immense help in the cathartic treatment, by widening the field of the patient's consciousness and putting within… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by far the more conspicuous… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction;… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We like to forget that in fact everything in our life is chance, from our genesis out of the encounter of spermatozoon… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
... every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
“Ko postavlja pitanje o smislu zivota,s njegovim libidom nije nesto u redu.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
“When it comes to the small matters in life one should think long and hard, but when it comes to the big ones -whether… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
We like to forget that in fact everything in our life is chance, from our genesis out of the encounter of spermatozoon and egg… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and that the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
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