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One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

Sigmund Freud
Giving Up, Pleasure, Uncertain

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

Sigmund Freud
Men, Vices, Heterosexuality
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1964). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Sigmund Freud
Paranoid, Mistaken

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

Sigmund Freud
Cute, Dog, Hate
Sigmund Freud (1992). “The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929-1939: A Record of the Final Decade”

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

Sigmund Freud
Life, Want, Endure
Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1957). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: On the history of psycho-analytic movement, papers on metapsychology and other works”

It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.

Sigmund Freud
Children, Attention, Seeking

The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.

Sigmund Freud
Behavior, Unnatural

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Sigmund Freud
Inspiring, Dream, Morning

A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.

Sigmund Freud
Father, Loss, Men

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

Sigmund Freud
Mother, Psychology, Pessimistic

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Sigmund Freud
Love, Friendship, Secret Love
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

Sigmund Freud
Self, Longing, Deprivation
Sigmund Freud (2008). “General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.

Sigmund Freud
Pain, Powerful, Disappointment
Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

Sigmund Freud
Religious, Atheist, Men

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Sigmund Freud
Love, Change, Humble
"Unexpected Intimacy: Everyday Connections that Nourish the Soul". Book by Cindy Gabriel, p. 117, 2008.

Not all men are worthy of love.

Sigmund Freud
Men, Worthy, Worthy Of Love
Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.32, Courier Dover Publications

The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!

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

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Sigmund Freud
Peace, War, Civilization

The madman is a dreamer awake

Sigmund Freud
Dreamer, Madmen, Awake

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.

Sigmund Freud
Funny, Humorous, Kissing

All that matters is love and work.

Sigmund Freud
Sweet, Sweet Love, Matter
"The couples who work and play together" by Angela Neustatter, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2005.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

Sigmund Freud
Magic, Today
Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud
Inspiring, Education, Teacher
Sigmund Freud (1954). “The Origns of Psycho- Analysis”

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Sigmund Freud
Sex, Matter, Behavior
Sigmund Freud (1950). “Collected Papers ...”

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Sigmund Freud
Failure, America, World
"Freud: the Man and his Cause". Book by Ronald W. Clark, 1980.

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