Sigmund Freud Quotes

Sigmund Freud (106)

Birth:	6th May, 1856
Death:	23rd September, 1939
Nationality:	Austrian
Profession:	Neurologist, Psychoanalyst, Psychologist, Scientist

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

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• A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

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• The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

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• The greatest question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is: What does a woman want?

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• 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.

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  Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

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• My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

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• Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

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  One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

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  The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

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  Tags in Entirely, Paranoid

• When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

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• A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

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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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• 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.

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• The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us – of becoming happy – is not attainable: yet we may not – nay, cannot – give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

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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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• 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.

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• A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

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• A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

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• A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

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  Tags in Man, Favorite