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Sigmund Freud Quotes - Page 2

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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.

Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.

Love, Desire

Sigmund Freud (2014). “On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love”, p.9, Read Books Ltd

If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.

Wife, Funny Marriage, Want

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

Dream, Summarizing, Royal

The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.

Women, Dark, Psychology

The Question of Lay Analysis pt. 4 (1926)

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.

Teacher, Men, Decision

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

Funny, Women, Should

Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.

People, Advice, Reason

Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.

Health, Two, Imagination

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Time, Cat, Animal

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

Inspirational, Positive, Education

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

Life, Mother, Self Esteem

Sigmund Freud (1975). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”

I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.

Destiny, Majority, Minorities

Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question."

Reality, Confusion, Religion

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

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

Art, Teaching, Feet

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

Science, Abuse, Praise

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Leadership, Alzheimer's, Water

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

Doe, Chaos, Forgotten

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

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Creativity, Ideas, Innovation

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

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

Conscious, Passing, Humans

Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Angela Richards (1971). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Children, Educational, Philosophy

Sigmund Freud (2010). “The Interpretation of Dreams”, p.268, Basic Books

There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.

Children, Play, Giving

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

There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.

Powerful, Feelings, Mind

That which we can't remember, we will repeat.

Remember, Repeats

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

Animal, Privilege, Company

Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.

Broken, Crystals, Structure

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