Sigmund Freud
Biography
Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Quotes from Sigmund Freud
"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."
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"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization."
553
"Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor."
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"Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion."
555
"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
556
"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water."
557
"A large part of what is real within us is not comprehended; and that which is comprehended is not real."
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"The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside."
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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."
560
"The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past."
561
"Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair."
562
"Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength."
563
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
564
"Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways."
565
"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them."
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