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Them Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions…
- An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew,…
- 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…
- Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp…
- 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…
- 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 adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical…
- 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…
- 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…
- Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease…
- 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,…
- We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold…
- 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…
- There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with…
- ...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that…
- But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if…
- The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from…
- These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can…
- I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash...
- I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they…
- A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a…
- A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the…
- Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
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- 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
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster