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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Austrian Psychologist
Born: May 6, 1856
Died: Sep 23, 1939
Civilization Ego Every First Life Man
Related authors: Alfred Adler Anna Freud Helene Deutsch Otto Rank Paul Watzlawick Viktor E. Frankl Wilhelm Reich
America is a mistake, a giant mistake. Sigmund Freud
Mistake Giant America
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. Sigmund Freud
Men Think Moral Immoral More Than Far Imagine
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. Sigmund Freud
Love Humble Speak Narcissism Those Part Becomes Loves Who Whoever
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice. Sigmund Freud
Justice First Civilization Requisite
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him. Sigmund Freud
Doctor Mirror Nothing Opaque Like Him His Patients Them Should Show Shown
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
Will Young Complain Neurotics Like Most Make Talking Them Illness Away Her Defend
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. Sigmund Freud
Liberty Gift Before Civilization Individual Greatest Any
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another. Sigmund Freud
Freedom Ego Impossible Patient Analysis Way Out One-Way Give Make Reactions Another Does Pathological Decide Set
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. Sigmund Freud
Me Progress Books Would Content Making Middle Middle Ages Burned Burning Ages Now
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. Sigmund Freud
Strength Religion Illusion Our Fact Instinctual Falls Derives Desires
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. Sigmund Freud
Life Success Man Confidence Mother Feeling Has-Been Darling Triumphant Seldom Throughout He Along Been His Which Actual Brings
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them. Sigmund Freud
Needs Strive Feel Intensely Children Them Satisfy
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. Sigmund Freud
Impossible Civilization Instinct Built Renunciation Overlook Which Extent
Anatomy is destiny. Sigmund Freud
Anatomy Destiny
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
Happiness Wisdom Alone Our Would Investing Also Concern Quarter His Cautious Anticipate Just Capital Us Businessman
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. Sigmund Freud
Unbelief No-One Forced Just Belief
Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends. Sigmund Freud
Proper Directed Sadism Ends Place Should Right
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. Sigmund Freud
Man Culture Disposition Independent Tendency Powerful Instinctual Obstacle Aggression Innate
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. Sigmund Freud
Happy Other Pleasure Some Give Attainable Towards Come Principle Becoming Goal Up Efforts May Cannot Which Realization Us Means Nay Nearer
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. Sigmund Freud
Happiness Needs Degree Sense Strictest High Call Been Up Which Sudden Satisfaction
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times. Sigmund Freud
God Man Trouble Become Those Kind Give Magnificent He Puts Prosthetic Him Still Were His Truly Times Much Organs Grown
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home. Sigmund Freud
Home Nothing Analogy More True Feel Make Decide
The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious. Sigmund Freud
Nature Whatever Unconscious Itself May
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. Sigmund Freud
Life Pressure Believe Has-Been Cost Civilization Instincts Been Created Satisfaction
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