Sigmund Freud Quotes

• The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

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• At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

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• A woman who is very anxious to get children always reads ‘storks’ for ‘stocks’.

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• The principal task of civilisation, its actual raison d’etre, is to defend us against nature.

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• Congratulations and bouquets keep pouring in, as if the role of sexuality had been suddenly recognised by His Majesty, the interpretation of dreams confirmed by the Council of Ministers, and the necessity of the psychoanalytic therapy of hysteria carried by a two-thirds majority in Parliament.

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• I am actually not at all a man of science… I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador, an adventurer.

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• Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

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• The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

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• A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

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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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• 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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• We are never so vulnerable as when we love.

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• We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

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• We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the s*xual instincts or Eros, is by far the more conspicuous and accessible to study…. The second class of instincts was not so easy to point to; in the end we came to recognize sadism as its representative. On the basis of theoretical considerations, supported by biology, we put forward the hypothesis of a death instinct, the task of which is to lead organic life back into the inanimate state; on the other hand, we supposed that Eros … aims at complicating life and at the same time, of course, at preserving it. Acting in this way, both the instincts … would be endeavouring to re-establish a state of things that was disturbed by the emergence of life. The emergence of life would thus be the cause of the continuance of life and also at the same time of the striving towards death; and life itself would be a conflict and compromise between these two trends.

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• Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

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Sigmund Freud (115)

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

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