- Nov 07, 2020
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- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Insult
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
- Dashed
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
One is very crazy when in love.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
- Certain Degree
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- Nov 07, 2020
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
- Giant
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
- Civilization
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Goal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal of all life is death.
- Brainy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If youth knew; if age could.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
- Inability
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
- Grandiose
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ego is not master in its own house.
- Birth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020