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Us Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
- No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
- We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal…
- 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…
- Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed…
- Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed…
- There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its…
- Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.
- The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The…
- Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative…
- 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 never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.
- It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no…
- The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.
- Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when…
- The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
- Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
- Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our…
- The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot -…
- Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and…
- Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be…
- The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and…
- Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it…
- Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong