Tag: Sigmund Freud
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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
Sigmund Freud
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Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
Sigmund Freud
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If youth knew; if age could.
Sigmund Freud
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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.
Sigmund Freud
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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.
Sigmund Freud
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
Sigmund Freud
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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud
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The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Sigmund Freud
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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Sigmund Freud
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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.
Sigmund Freud