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Own Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come…
- 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…
- None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
- An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and…
- ... 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…
- I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.
- The ego is not master in its own house.
- 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…
- A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and…
- The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in…
- 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:…
- Those who love fairy-tales do not like it when people speak of the innate tendencies in mankind toward aggression, destruction, and, in addition, cruelty. God…
- We hate the criminal and deal severely with him, because we view in his deeds as in a distorting mirror our own criminal tendencies.
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