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Other Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.
- The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness…
- Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would…
- 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…
- 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…
- Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy…
- Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.
- It almost looks like analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other two,…
- Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and…
- Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content…
- The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot -…
- The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
- 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:…
- It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive…
- Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes it possible for higher psychical activities, scientific, artistic or ideological,…
- We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by far the more conspicuous and accessible to…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour