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• A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

  Sigmund Freud

  Civilization, Numbers, Perspective

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.

  Sigmund Freud

  Voice, Voice Of Reason, Reason

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• At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

  Sigmund Freud

  Father, Religion, Bottom

  1927 The Future of an Illusion.

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• The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.

  Sigmund Freud

  Loss, Civilization, Guilt

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.208, Broadview Press

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• The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Fall, Ideas

  Sigmund Freud, Scientific Literature Corporation (1961). “The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

  Sigmund Freud

  Scientific Method, Philosopher, Poet

  Quoted in Philip R. Lehrman, "Freud's Contributions to Science," Harofe Haivri (1940)

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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

  Fall, Psychology, Mind

  Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations Leonard Louis Levinson

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• I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

  Sigmund Freud

  Adventure, Men, Conquistadors

  Letter toWilhelm Fliess, 1 Feb. 1900

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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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Confidence, Mother, Son

  "A Childhood Recollection from Dichtung und Wahrheit" (1917)

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• Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Desire, Presses

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• Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

  Sigmund Freud

  Support, Morality, Found

  "The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, Ch. 7, 1927.

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• The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Soul, Matter

  Sigmund Freud (2012). “On Dreams”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Long Ago, Omnipotence

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.23, Courier Dover Publications

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• In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.

  Sigmund Freud

  Choices, Decision, Important

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• This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

  Sigmund Freud

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment.

  Sigmund Freud

  Powerful, Men, Wish

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.40, Courier Dover Publications

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

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Insanity, Mind

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• In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

  Sigmund Freud

  Hypocrite, Matter, Sexuality

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

  Sigmund Freud

  Wish, Able, Aviation

  Sigmund Freud (2013). “Leonardo da Vinci”, p.75, Routledge

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• So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.

  Sigmund Freud

  Two, Humanity, Unity

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.67, Courier Dover Publications

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• The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Motivational, Achievement, Complicated

  Sigmund Freud (2010). “The Interpretation of Dreams”, p.590, Basic Books

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• Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

  Sigmund Freud

  Lying, People, Intellectual

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• Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.

  Sigmund Freud

  Real, Doubt, Mind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free.

  Sigmund Freud

  Silence, Anxiety, Darkness

  Sigmund Freud (1997). “Writings on Art and Literature”, p.229, Stanford University Press

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• Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

  Sigmund Freud

  Differences, Groups, Prejudice

  Moses and Monotheism ch. 3, pt. 1 (1938)

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