Austrian - Psychologist | May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
Sigmund Freud
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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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.
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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 his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
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The goal of all life is death.
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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
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Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
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