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Wish Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
- Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.
- 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…
- A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there…
- The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.
- One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are…
- 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 would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral…
- What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly…
- Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us
- 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…
More Wish Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius