Sigmund Freud
Austria
6 May 1856 // 23 Sep 1939
Neurologist / Psychiatrist
6 May 1856 // 23 Sep 1939
Neurologist / Psychiatrist
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One is very crazy when in love
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
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
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine
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
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
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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Essays