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Sigmund Freud Quotes

Sigmund Freud quotes about men

Austrian Psychologist, Scientist May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939

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The element of truth behind all this, which people are so ready to disavow, is that men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness. Sigmund Freud
A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love. Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud quote: "Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire..."
Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love Sigmund Freud
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions. Sigmund Freud
Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. 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... Sigmund Freud
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 science. Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud quote: "Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they..."
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud quote: "The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the..."
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud quote: "Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than..."
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud quote: "Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration..."
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. Sigmund Freud

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