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Giving Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.
- No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
- If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for…
- Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.
- No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least…
- There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with…
- If you can't do it, give up!
- All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
- Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
- The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot -…
- 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…
- The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and…
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi