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Which Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- 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…
- It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
- What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
- 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…
- 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…
- If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual…
- 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…
- The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot -…
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