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" 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. "

Sigmund Freud

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" The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. "

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

" The ego is not master in its own house. "

" It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. "

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

" Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. "

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

" 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. "

" The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. "

" I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. "

" The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious. "

" The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. "

" If you can't do it, give up! "

Sigmund Freud

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" Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends. "

" Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake. "

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

" 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. "

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Sometimes

Enjoy

" The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. "

" We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. "

" If youth knew; if age could. "

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

" America is a mistake, a giant mistake. "