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One Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- 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…
- I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.
- Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
- The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain…
- The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the…
- Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and…
- Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be…
- 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…
- By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.
- One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy,…
- Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one another…
- 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.…
- Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to…
- No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them,…
- Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed…
- 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 one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape…
- 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…
- It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is…
- 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 it…
- I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion
- If it's not one thing, it's your mother.
- When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
- My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only…
- One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We…
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