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America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
Category: America Author: Sigmund Freud
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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Category: America Author: 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.
Category: Censorship Author: Sigmund Freud
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Category: Civilization Author: Sigmund Freud
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One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
Category: Civilization Author: Sigmund Freud
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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Category: Civilization Author: Sigmund Freud
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The goal of all life is death.
Category: Death Author: Sigmund Freud
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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.
Category: Happiness Author: 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.
Category: Inner Child Author: 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.
Category: Letters Author: Sigmund Freud
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
Category: Mind Author: Sigmund Freud
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In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.
Category: Philosophical Author: 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.
Category: Poetry Author: Sigmund Freud
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The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
Category: Psychology Author: Sigmund Freud
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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Category: Reality Author: Sigmund Freud
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A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
Category: Women Author: Sigmund Freud
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