Quotes by Sigmund Freud
The goal of all life is death.
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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
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The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
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I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
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In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
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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.
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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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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One gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
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A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
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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.
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