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Him Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- 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…
- In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that…
- I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.
- As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient…
- 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…
- Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or…
- ... every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations…
- The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from…
- A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.
- He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent,…
- The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
- 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…
- 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…
- We hate the criminal and deal severely with him, because we view in his deeds as in a distorting mirror our own criminal tendencies.
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden