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• Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect".

  Sigmund Freud

  Fall, Civilization, People

  Sigmund Freud, Philip Rieff (1997). “Sexuality and The Psychology of Love”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Civilization, Use, Obvious

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

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• Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.

  Sigmund Freud

  Crush, Religious, Nature

  "The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, Ch. 3, 1927.

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• Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Happiness, Mean, Pleasure

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• When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

  Sigmund Freud

  Science, Religion, Imagine

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• Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It is said that all great men are bound to retain some infantile part. Even as an adult he continued to play, and this was another reason why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Men, Play

  Sigmund Freud (2013). “Leonardo da Vinci”, p.76, Routledge

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• Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

  Sigmund Freud

  Atheist, Humanity, Age

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• We must love or we grow ill.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ill, Grows

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• What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Long, Joy

  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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• The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

  Sigmund Freud

  Passion, Ego, Sanity

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Creation, Intention

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

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• In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure.

  Sigmund Freud

  Believe, Taken, Principles

  Sigmund Freud (1955). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Science, Collective Unconscious

  The Interpretation of Dreams ch. 7 (1900)

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• My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

  Sigmund Freud

  Reflection, Love Is, Valuable

  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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• Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

  Sigmund Freud

  Kind, Burden, Ends

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• Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

  Sigmund Freud

  Knowledge, Men, Poetry

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• As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.

  Sigmund Freud

  Discovery, Decision, Solitude

  Sigmund Freud (2016). “SIGMUND FREUD Ultimate Collection: Psychoanalytic Studies, Theoretical Essays & Articles: The Interpretation of Dreams, Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Dream Psychology, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Totem and Taboo, Leonardo da Vinci…”, p.1441, e-artnow

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• What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

  Sigmund Freud

  Wish, Illusion, Characteristics

  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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• In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

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  Psychological, Sexuality, Found

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “Three essays on the theory of sexuality”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

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  Ambition, Character, Taught Us

  Sigmund Freud (2012). “The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud”, p.544, Modern Library

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• The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

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  God, Father, Special

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.171, Routledge

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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

  Missing You, Wisdom, Children

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• The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.

  Sigmund Freud

  Civilization, Aggression, Inclination

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• Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.

  Sigmund Freud

  Past, History, Not Interested

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• In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.

  Sigmund Freud

  Choices, Decision, Important

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