Sigmund Freud Quotes

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• Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.
• In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
• We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also…
• When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.
• When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions…
• Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
• An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew,…
• One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they…
• The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.
• Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.
• It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.
• The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to…
• The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary…
• Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the…
• My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not you choose to…
• Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp…
• The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
• A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.
• Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.
• It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too

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