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Sigmund Freud Quotes - Page 6

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In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events

In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure.

Believe, Taken, Principles

Sigmund Freud (1955). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.

Perception, Protection, Stimulus

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.

Intense, Made, Enjoyment

Sigmund Freud (2014). “Freud Verbatim”, p.14, The Overlook Press

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Reflection, Love Is, Valuable

Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

Writing, Wealth, Fame

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

Men, Creation, Intention

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

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

Passion, Ego, Sanity

Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

One is very crazy when in love.

Love, Crazy, Godly

The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.

Civilization, Aggression, Inclination

Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

Kind, Burden, Ends

Love and work, work and love...that's all there is.

Love, Work, Life And Love

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

Father, Religion, Bottom

1927 The Future of an Illusion.

Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.

Keys, Doors, Neurosis

Sigmund Freud (1997). “Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick.

Numbers, Long, People

Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.

Crush, Religious, Nature

"The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, Ch. 3, 1927.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

Dream, Soul, Matter

Sigmund Freud (2012). “On Dreams”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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.

Fall, Psychology, Mind

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Love, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.16, Courier Dover Publications

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.

Loss, Civilization, Guilt

Sigmund Freud (2015). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.208, Broadview Press

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.

Discovery, Decision, Solitude

Sigmund Freud (2016). “SIGMUND FREUD Ultimate Collection: Psychoanalytic Studies, Theoretical Essays & Articles: The Interpretation of Dreams, Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Dream Psychology, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Totem and Taboo, Leonardo da Vinci…”, p.1441, e-artnow

The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.

Voice, Voice Of Reason, Reason

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.

Civilization, Numbers, Perspective

Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

Religious, Fall, Ideas

Sigmund Freud, Scientific Literature Corporation (1961). “The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

Happiness, Mean, Pleasure

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

Confidence, Mother, Son

"A Childhood Recollection from Dichtung und Wahrheit" (1917)

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