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Psychology Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the…
- If it's not one thing, it's your mother.
- The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into…
- 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…
- In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.
- Dreams are representations of unfulfilled wishes and repressed feeling.
- Unexpected emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
- It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and that the night…
- 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…
- 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 hate the criminal and deal severely with him, because we view in his deeds as in a distorting mirror our own criminal tendencies.
- And in the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as a civilizing factor in the sense that it…
- And now look at the great war still devastating Europe: think of the colossal brutality, cruelty, and mendacity which is now allowed to spread itself…
- 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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- Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology. — James Carville
- No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. — Anton Chekhov
- One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. — Noam Chomsky
- Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl… — Tori Amos
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- There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and… — Picabo Street
- Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar