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" The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. "
Sigmund Freud
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" Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends. "
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" 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. "
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" The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. "
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" It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. "
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" Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. "
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" America is a mistake, a giant mistake. "
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" We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love. "
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" He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. "
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" 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. "
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" The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. "
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" Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake. "
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" Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me. "
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" 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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" Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. "
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" Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. "
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" Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. "
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More
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" Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times. "
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" A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. "
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" The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. "
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