Sigmund Freud quote: "Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations"

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy t...
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The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
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Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have...
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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instin...
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Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men t...
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The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting t...
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If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feel...
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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of nee...
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Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's e...
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If youth knew; if age could.
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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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If you can't do it, give up!
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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
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Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
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The ego is not master in its own house.
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Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the co...
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A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into r...
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The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinct...
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Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
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Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
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The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is...
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In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few excepti...
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The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended fr...
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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved!
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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we...
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Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as...
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Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.
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It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical ...
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?
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It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement �...
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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of th...
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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us -- of becoming happy -- is not attainable: y...
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The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth,...
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I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are ...
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The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris...
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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civil...
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The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitut...
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America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be...
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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of...
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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; th...
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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
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We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of thi...
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Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why...
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When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the ...
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If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling,...
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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he i...
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The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence tha...
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By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.
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Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psy...
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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it a...
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The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the laym...
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Where id was, there shall ego be.
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Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any...
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Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who ...
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The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
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The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power...
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I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who be...
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
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It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your who...
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The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forc...
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Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego f...
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Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individua...
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with...
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It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the ...
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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect...
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No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed che...
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I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am...
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These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware t...
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I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whethe...
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Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the ...
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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men t...
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My outer child is holding my inner-adult hostage
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Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them,...
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We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is un...
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Sexual love is undoubtedly one of the chief things in life, and the union of mental and bodily satis...
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror...
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Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man
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If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepar...
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One is very crazy when in love.
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We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay ...
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Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually ele...
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It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are...
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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitut...
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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead....
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A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legiti...
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of for...
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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the m...
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I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of...
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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great ...
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are...
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Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other...
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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give...
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we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., ...
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it aw...
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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of ins...
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet...
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He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If h...
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A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace...
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would prob...
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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despi...
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Anatomy is destiny.
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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
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Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerit...
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In general we are reminded that the word heimlich is not unambiguous, but belongs to two sets of ide...
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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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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
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Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psy...
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Cats are magical. . .the more you pet them the longer you both live.
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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble me...
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It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too
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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of rel...
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We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the p...
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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The goal of all life is death.
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Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of wate...
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From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
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A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family ...
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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despi...
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One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority b...
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Love and work...work and love, that's all there is.
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Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us
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Every dog has his day - but the nights are reserved for the cats
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There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast
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Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it
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Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality
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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
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I never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me as a member
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People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life
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Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some a...
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The madman is a dreamer awake
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise
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No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human bea...
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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy'' is not included in the plan...
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The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other mode...
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As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought...
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine sin...
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We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior ...
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The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received...
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We should make it a rule not to seek to impose hypnotic treatment on any patient. A prejudice is wid...
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Anyone who sets about hypnotizing half sceptically, who may perhaps seem comical to himself in this ...
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The child is brought up to know its social duties by means of a system of love-rewards and punishmen...
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We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance ...
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If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a las...
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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved
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The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended fr...
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Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis
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We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by f...
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We hate the criminal and deal severely with him, because we view in his deeds as in a distorting mir...
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I have found little that is ''good'' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them ...
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People are made either to sufffer or to destroy.
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If you can't do it, give up!
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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men t...
SIGMUND FREUD

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness
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No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some wa...
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Those who love fairy-tales do not like it when people speak of the innate tendencies in mankind towa...
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Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past
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I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, ar...
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Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief
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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despi...
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Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be...
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Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way...
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The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may b...
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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
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Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty an...
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Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled t...
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The fetish is a substitute for the mother's penis that the little boy had once believed in and does ...
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O homem não tem nada melhor para fazer do que tentar estar em perfeito acordo consigo mesmo.
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When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment;...
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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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...we cannot fail to recognise the influence which the progressive control over natural forces exert...
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.It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance w...
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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations

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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations

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