Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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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. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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