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Sigmund Freud Quotes - Page 8

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Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

Differences, Groups, Prejudice

Moses and Monotheism ch. 3, pt. 1 (1938)

In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

Science, Psychology, Analysis

Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.

Dream, Sleep, Guardian

Sigmund Freud (2010). “The Interpretation of Dreams”, p.253, Basic Books

Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.

Self, Years, Fifty

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

Death, Suicide, Dying

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.

Writing, Letters, Something New

Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.235, Courier Corporation

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Inspirational, Anger, Civilization

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

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

Dream, Kind, Cocaine

Sigmund Freud (2010). “The Interpretation of Dreams”, p.194, Basic Books

Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.

Hatred, Christianity, Judaism

Sigmund Freud (2016). “Moses and Monotheism”, p.178, Leonardo Paolo Lovari

The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.

Development, Form, Humans

Sigmund Freud, Philip Rieff (1997). “Sexuality and The Psychology of Love”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare.

Men, Issues, Humanity

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.

Hard Work, Play, Ideas

Sigmund Freud, Oskar Pfister (1963). “Psycho-analysis and Faith: The Letters of Sigmund Freud & Oskar Pfister”

It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.

Teamwork, Animal, Men

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

Science, Religion, Imagine

Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness and protection from suffering. Its technique consists in depressing the value of life and distorting the picture of the real world in a delusional manner - which presupposes an intimidation of the intelligence. At this price, by forcibly fixing them in a state of psychical infantilism and by drawing them into a mass-delusion, religion succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis. But hardly anything more.

Depressing, Real, Play

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

Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

Moving, Thinking, Psychology

"New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis". Book by Sigmund Freud, transl. by James Strachey, "Anxiety and Instinctual Life" (Lecture 32), 1933.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Missing You, Wisdom, Children

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

Caring, Share, Prose

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Dream, Science, Collective Unconscious

The Interpretation of Dreams ch. 7 (1900)

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

Wish, Illusion, Characteristics

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

There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.

Dream, Waking, Technique

Sigmund Freud (2010). “The Interpretation of Dreams”, p.35, Basic Books

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

Mastery, Demand, Instinct

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Statistics, Belief, Unbelief

SIGMUND FREUD “THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION”

The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.

Reality, Ego, Suffering

In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

Psychological, Sexuality, Found

Sigmund Freud (1962). “Three essays on the theory of sexuality”, Basic Books (AZ)

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