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• Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.

  Sigmund Freud

  Deceit, Culture, Conflict

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• Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

  Sigmund Freud

  Moving, Thinking, Psychology

  "New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis". Book by Sigmund Freud, transl. by James Strachey, "Anxiety and Instinctual Life" (Lecture 32), 1933.

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• Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate.

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  Love, Hate, Unexpected

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical function that is normally in operation against them seem to be hard of achievement for some people. The "involuntary thoughts" are liable to release a most violent resistance, which seeks to prevent their emergence. If we may trust that great poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, however, poetic creation must demand an exactly similar attitude.

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  Attitude, Ideas, People

  Sigmund Freud, Angela Richards (1953). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Giving Up, Pain

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.

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  Doe, Purpose, Links

  Sigmund Freud (2008). “General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

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  Mourning, Ego, World

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1957). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: On the history of psycho-analytic movement, papers on metapsychology and other works”

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• public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

  Sigmund Freud

  Self, Psychological, Constructs

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• America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.

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  Mistake, America, Nevertheless

  "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud: Years of maturity, 1901-1919". Book by Ernest Jones, p. 60, 1957.

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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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  God, Men, Giving

  Sigmund Freud (1992). “The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929-1939: A Record of the Final Decade”

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• The world is no nursery.

  Sigmund Freud

  World, Nursery

  Sigmund Freud (1965). “New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis”

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• No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit.".

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  Men, Civilization, Safety

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• Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

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  People, Safety, Chance

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• What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm.

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  Doubt, Principles, Purpose

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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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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  Betrayal, Eye, Keeping Secrets

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too

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  Life, Gay, Lgbt

  Letter to an American mother, 9 Apr. 1935

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• Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.

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  Religious, Errors, World

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• It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form to replace the religious catechism by something else, even a scientific one.

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  Religious, Mistake, Believe

  Sigmund freud (1975). “Gen Intro Psycho”, Pocket

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• I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.

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  Use, Firsts, Serious

  Sigmund Freud, Sander L. Gilman (1995). “Psychological writings and letters”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.

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  War, Civilization, Growth

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (1953). “The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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• When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego which can only be described as a setting up of the object inside the ego, as it occurs in melancholia; the exact nature of this substitution is as yet unknown to us.

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  Giving Up, Ego, Persons

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise.

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  Children, Needs, Helping

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• Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

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  Sadism, Ends, Should

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• Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?

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  Average, Concern, Humans

  Sigmund freud (1975). “Gen Intro Psycho”, Pocket

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• One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they diminish imperceptibly or the lock gets rusty; they are there all right but one cannot make use of them.

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  Mean, Emotional, Long

  Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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