Sigmund Freud

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“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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“Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.”

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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“The madman is a dreamer awake”

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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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.”

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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“He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.”

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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“America is a mistake, a giant mistake.”

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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“What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books ”

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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“Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.”

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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“The ego is not master in its own house.”

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.”

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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“The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.”

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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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 (1856-1939)

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"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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"I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash..."

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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"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 (1856-1939)

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"In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart."

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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"We are what we are because we have been what we have been."

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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"I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans."

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)