Austrian - Psychologist | May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud
HappinessWisdomAloneInvestingUs
Anatomy is destiny.
DestinyAnatomy
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
MirrorDoctorNothingHimShowLike
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
CharacterAmbitionConnectionBedUs
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
LifeBelievePressureSatisfaction
Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
RealityUsLikePhysicalAppears
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
ExperienceAnxietyBirthFirstAct
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
LifePurposeLongResultRealOut
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
JusticeCivilizationFirstRequisite
Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
PlaceRightShouldProperEnds
Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?
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If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
LifeSuccessMotherConfidenceMan
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