64 result(s) for Sigmund Freud Quotes.
"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."
"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement, that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life."
"It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness."
"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."
"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization."
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."
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"It is only by making the patient aware of what he does not know or does unconsciously that he can bring some element of his unconscious knowledge to consciousness."
"Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me."
"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."
"The madman is a dreamer awake."
"When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it."
"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get in accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."
"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."
"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises."
"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."
"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
"The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him."
"How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved."
"The mind is like an iceberg; it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water."
"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement - that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life."
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"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."
"Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation."
"Where Id was, there shall Ego be."
"The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation."
"From error to error one discovers the entire truth."
"Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
"No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed."
"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror."
"Women oppose change, receive passively, and add nothing of their own."
"SHOW ME A CHILD AT PLAY AND I WILL SHOW YOU THE CHILDHOOD THAT IS HAPPINESS."
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."
"Where id was, there ego shall be."
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"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water."
"The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past."
"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."
"One day, in retrospect, the years of strain will strike you as the most beautiful."
"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life."
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
"We are what we are because we have been what we have been."
"Our own dreams at night mean nothing, or almost nothing, but the unuttered dreams of others mean everything."
"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."
"The ego is not master in its own house."
"Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength."
"Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious."
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
"Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways."
"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
"Time spent with cats is never wasted."
"A person who feels threatened by the call of nature stands in a bad relation to his own body and its functions."
"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
"If you want to know your past - look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future - look into your present actions."
"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."
"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement."
"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism."
"Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair."
"The intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of 'Creation'."
"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love."
"Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them."
"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."
"The goal of all life is death."
"The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life."
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