Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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Quotes by Sigmund Freud
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
The great 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?'
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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.
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.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
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.
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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.
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
If you can't do it, give up!
Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.
Where id was, there ego shall be.
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