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Sigmund Freud quotes

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

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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. Sigmund Freud
The dream has a very striking way of dealing with the category of opposites and contradictions. This is simply disregarded. To the dream 'No' does not seem to exist. In particular, it prefers to draw opposites together into a unity or to represent them as one. Indeed, it also takes the liberty of representing some random element by its wished-for opposite, so that at first one cannot tell which of the possible poles is meant positively or negatively in the dream-thoughts. Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud quote: "The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of..."
The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation. Sigmund Freud
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. Sigmund Freud
The freeing of an individual, as he grows up, from the authority of his parents is one of the most necessary though one of the most painful results brought about by the course of his development. It is quite essential that that liberation should occur and it may be presumed that it has been to some extent achieved by everyone who has reached a normal state. Indeed, the whole progress of society rests upon the opposition between successive generations. On the other hand, there is a class of... Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud quote: "One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you..."
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. Sigmund Freud
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times. Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud quote: "Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural..."
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it. Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud quote: "America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen,..."
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. Sigmund Freud
...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction. Sigmund Freud
I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think. Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud quote: "Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy..."
Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions. Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud quote: "Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word..."
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. Sigmund Freud
Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs. Sigmund Freud
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 order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be. Sigmund Freud

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