“Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.”
Sigmund Freud
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“Sexual love is undoubtedly one of the chief things in life, and the union of mental and bodily satisfaction in the enjoyment of love is one of its culminating peaks. Apart from a few queer fanatics, all the world knows this and conducts its life accordingly; science alone is too delicate to admit it.”
Sigmund Freud
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“We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.”
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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“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”
Sigmund Freud
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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.”
Sigmund Freud
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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.”
Sigmund Freud
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“One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be “happy” is not included in the plan of “Creation.”
Sigmund Freud
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“Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.”
Sigmund Freud
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“The ego is not master in its own house.”
Sigmund Freud
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“Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.”
Sigmund Freud
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“From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.”
Sigmund Freud
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“By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.”
Sigmund Freud
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“Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.”
Sigmund Freud
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“A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.”
Sigmund Freud
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“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”
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 most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.”
Sigmund Freud
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“Where id was, there shall ego be.”
Sigmund Freud
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“One is very crazy when in love.”
Sigmund Freud
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