Sigmund Freud Zitate auf Englisch

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

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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

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

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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

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Where id was, there ego shall be.

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The goal of all life is death.

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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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Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

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

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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

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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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If you can't do it, give up!

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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

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

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Time spent with cats is never wasted.

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The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

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Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?

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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

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

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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

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

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