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It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.


Sigmund Freud

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SIGMUND FREUD Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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SIGMUND FREUD Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
SIGMUND FREUD Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
SIGMUND FREUD I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.
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SIGMUND FREUD It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too
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SIGMUND FREUD We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the p...
SIGMUND FREUD Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
SIGMUND FREUD The goal of all life is death.
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SIGMUND FREUD From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
SIGMUND FREUD From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
SIGMUND FREUD A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family ...
SIGMUND FREUD The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despi...
SIGMUND FREUD One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority b...
SIGMUND FREUD Love and work...work and love, that's all there is.
SIGMUND FREUD Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us
SIGMUND FREUD Every dog has his day - but the nights are reserved for the cats
SIGMUND FREUD There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast
SIGMUND FREUD Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it
SIGMUND FREUD Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality
SIGMUND FREUD We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
SIGMUND FREUD I never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me as a member
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SIGMUND FREUD Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some a...
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SIGMUND FREUD We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by f...
SIGMUND FREUD We hate the criminal and deal severely with him, because we view in his deeds as in a distorting mir...
SIGMUND FREUD I have found little that is ''good'' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them ...
SIGMUND FREUD People are made either to sufffer or to destroy.
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SIGMUND FREUD If you can't do it, give up!
SIGMUND FREUD Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men t...
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SIGMUND FREUD No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some wa...
SIGMUND FREUD Those who love fairy-tales do not like it when people speak of the innate tendencies in mankind towa...
SIGMUND FREUD Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past
SIGMUND FREUD I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, ar...
SIGMUND FREUD Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief
SIGMUND FREUD The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despi...
SIGMUND FREUD Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be...
SIGMUND FREUD Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way...
SIGMUND FREUD The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may b...
SIGMUND FREUD He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
SIGMUND FREUD Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty an...
SIGMUND FREUD Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled t...
SIGMUND FREUD The fetish is a substitute for the mother's penis that the little boy had once believed in and does ...
SIGMUND FREUD O homem não tem nada melhor para fazer do que tentar estar em perfeito acordo consigo mesmo.
SIGMUND FREUD When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment;...
SIGMUND FREUD My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
SIGMUND FREUD ...we cannot fail to recognise the influence which the progressive control over natural forces exert...
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