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Sigmund Freud
Austrian
Psychologist
Born:
May 6
,
1856
Died:
Sep 23
,
1939
Civilization
Ego
Every
First
Life
Man
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Sigmund Freud
Time
Angry
Word
First
Angry Person
Cast
Civilization
Instead
First Time
Rock
Began
Person
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Sigmund Freud
Parenting
Strong
Protection
Father
Think
Any
Childhood
Cannot
Need
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud
Freedom
People
Responsibility
Most
Involves
Because
Frightened
Want
Really
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
Sigmund Freud
Gardening
Emotions
Neither
Look
Nor
Conflicts
Flowers
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?'
Sigmund Freud
Great
Soul
Woman
Research
Thirty
Despite
Able
Never
Answer
Does
Answered
Feminine
Been
Years
Question
Want
Which
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
Sigmund Freud
Water
Brainy
Mind
Above
Like
Bulk
Iceberg
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
Sigmund Freud
Dreams
Crazy
Seem
Most
Often
Profound
Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.
Sigmund Freud
Work
Love
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.
Sigmund Freud
Good
You
Experience
Matter
Subscribe
Think
Say
About
Something
Perhaps
Aloud
Most
Doctrine
None
Human
Human Beings
Cannot
Whether
Little
Them
Ethical
Trash
Whole
Beings
Even
Found
Publicly
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
Lasting
Neither
Civilization
Unsatisfied
Drives
Participants
Prospect
Leaves
Nor
Existence
Revolt
Which
Them
Large
Deserves
Number
The goal of all life is death.
Sigmund Freud
Life
Death
Goal
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
Eyes
Every
Secret
Ears
Out
Silent
See
Betrayal
Fingertips
He
Mortal
Him
Himself
Hear
His
Lips
May
Convince
Keep
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
Sigmund Freud
Neurosis
Ambiguity
Inability
Tolerate
The ego is not master in its own house.
Sigmund Freud
Ego
Master
Own
House
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
Sigmund Freud
Dreams
Knowledge
Mind
Interpretation
Unconscious
Road
Activities
Royal
Royal Road
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Sigmund Freud
First
Civilization
Instead
Insult
Stone
Human
Who
Founder
One is very crazy when in love.
Sigmund Freud
Love
Crazy
Very
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.
Sigmund Freud
Reality
Sometimes
Pain
Enjoy
Complaint
Bit
Pleasure
Must
Dashed
Allow
Instead
Pieces
Accept
Because
Without
Commend
Which
Against
Themselves
Us
Therefore
Illusions
Save
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.
Sigmund Freud
Great
Mind
Subconscious
Pool
Back
Sun
Rises
Falling
May
Which
Compared
Conscious
Fountain
Conscious Mind
Playing
If you can't do it, give up!
Sigmund Freud
You
Give
Up
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Sigmund Freud
Success
World
Seen
Experiment
Most
Am
America
Going
Afraid
Grandiose
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud
Intelligence
Rest
Voice
Until
Does
Hearing
Intellect
Gained
Soft
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud
Intelligence
Distressing
Mentality
Adult
Feeble
Between
Contrast
Child
Average
Radiant
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Sigmund Freud
Life
Man
Mother
Feeling
Favorite
Has-Been
Been
His
Who
Conqueror
Keeps
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
Sigmund Freud
Men
Society
Civilized
Civilized Society
Through
Hostility
Primary
Towards
Another
Perpetually
Disintegration
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
Sigmund Freud
Ego
Every
Other
Some
Only
Fact
Part
Greater
His
Normal
Normal Person
Person
In Fact
Psychotic
Average
Lesser
Lesser Extent
Extent
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