Sigmund Freud Quotes

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The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
- Sigmund Freud

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One is very crazy when in love.
- Sigmund Freud

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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

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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

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It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.
- Sigmund Freud

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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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Thought is action in rehearsal.
- Sigmund Freud

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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
- Sigmund Freud

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From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
- Sigmund Freud

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I consider it a good rule for letter writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.
- Sigmund Freud

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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
- Sigmund Freud

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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.
- Sigmund Freud

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Anything that encourages the growth of emotional ties between men must operate against war.
- Sigmund Freud

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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
- Sigmund Freud

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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
- Sigmund Freud

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The goal of all life is death.
- Sigmund Freud