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People Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.
- The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
- Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger…
- I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the…
- 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…
- 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…
- The great majority of people have a strong need for authority which they can admire, to which they can submit, and which dominates and sometimes…
- 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…
- In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put…
- I think that it is a good plan to bear in mind that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a…
- Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.
- The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.
- Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
- This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
- It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves…
- Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
- Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.
- Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to…
- 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…
- 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…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- 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
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle