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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
By Sigmund Freud
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
By Sigmund Freud
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
By Sigmund Freud
We are certainly getting ahead if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar.
By Sigmund Freud
We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar.
By Sigmund Freud
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing
By Sigmund Freud
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
By Sigmund Freud
The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want
By Sigmund Freud
The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is: What does a woman want?
By Sigmund Freud
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
By Sigmund Freud
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
By Sigmund Freud
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
By Sigmund Freud
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, to play such an important part in civilized life. If one were to yield to a first impression, one would say that sublimation is a vicissitude which has been forced upon the instincts entirely by civilization. But it would be wiser to reflect upon this a little longer. In the third place, finally, and this seems the most important of all, it is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct, how much it presupposes precisely the non-satisfaction (by suppression, repression or some other means?) of powerful instincts. This ââ?¬Ë?cultural frustrationââ?¬â?¢ dominates the large field of social relationships between human beings;we know already that it is the cause of the antagonism against which all civilization has to fight.
By Sigmund Freud
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 inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.
By Sigmund Freud
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
By Sigmund Freud
Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.
By Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be learning how to darn socks
By Sigmund Freud
One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
By Sigmund Freud
One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.
By Sigmund Freud
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 happiness from one quarter alone.
By Sigmund Freud