Austrian - Psychologist | May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
Sigmund Freud
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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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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.
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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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One is very crazy when in love.
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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
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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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A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
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