SFSigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud

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I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.

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02Undated

…much will be gained if we succeed in transforming your hysterical misery into common unhappiness. With a mental life that has been restored to health, you will be better armed against that unhappiness.

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03Undated

The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.

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04Undated

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

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05Undated

It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour.

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06Undated

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....

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07Undated

Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation.

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08Undated

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

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09Undated

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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10Undated

In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.

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11Undated

Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.

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12Undated

Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

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13Undated

When making a decision of minor importance I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters however such as the choice of a mate or a profession the decision should come from the unconscious from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life we should be governed I think by the deep inner needs of our nature.

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14Undated

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

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15Undated

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

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16Undated

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

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17Undated

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.

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18Undated

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.

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19Undated

A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.

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20Undated

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

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21Undated

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

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22Undated

Life as we find it is too hard for us it entails too much pain too many disappointments impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.

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23Undated

Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get in accord with them they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world.

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24Undated

A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

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