Sigmund Freud Quotes

Austrian neurologist

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
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Despite my thirty years of research into the woman soul, I have not yet been able to answer the great question that has never been answered: What does a woman want?
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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The desire for self-development stems from ‘narcissistic’ desires, a tendency to self-aggrandizement and superiority over others.
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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.
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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
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I cannot imagine life without work as really comfortable.
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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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When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.
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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
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Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion’s eleventh commandment is “Thou shalt not question.”
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love.
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Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
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It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too
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