Sigmund Freud
Austria
6 May 1856 // 23 Sep 1939
Neurologist / Psychiatrist
6 May 1856 // 23 Sep 1939
Neurologist / Psychiatrist
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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism
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
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts
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
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing
The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture
The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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