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May Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- 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…
- 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…
- The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical…
- Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease…
- The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds.…
- All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases,…
- Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers.
- Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness…
- We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a…
- When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.
- 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 conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which…
- The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
- The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot -…
- We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in…
- 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…
- Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions:…
- Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the…
- In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.
More May Quotes
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong