Sigmund Freud Quotes

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Sigmund Freud

Profession : Psychologist

Birth : May 6, 1856

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

Sigmund Freud

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Sigmund Freud

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

Sigmund Freud

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

Sigmund Freud

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

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Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

Sigmund Freud

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Sigmund Freud

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

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.

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

Sigmund Freud

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

Sigmund Freud

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

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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.

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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

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The goal of all life is death.

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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

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He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

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