Sigmund Freud Quotes

What do women want, my God, what do they want What does a woman want.

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We are threatened with suffering from three directions from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful than any other.

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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 them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.

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Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

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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 of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

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Where id was, there ego shall be.

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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

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If you can't do it, give up

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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

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We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

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The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

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Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' ... We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

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Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.

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Sexual love is undoubtedly one of the chief things in life, and the union of mental and bodily satisfaction in the enjoyment of love is one of its culminating peaks. Apart from a few queer fanatics, all the world knows this and conducts its life accordingly science alone is too delicate to admit it.

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Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.

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The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

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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.

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People are made either to sufffer or to destroy.

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We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction after all, the sexual life of adult women is a ''dark continent'' for psychology.

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