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• Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Spiritual, Work

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• The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

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  Religious, Fall, Ideas

  Sigmund Freud, Scientific Literature Corporation (1961). “The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

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  Dream, Soul, Matter

  Sigmund Freud (2012). “On Dreams”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.

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  Keys, Doors, Neurosis

  Sigmund Freud (1997). “Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Love, Work, Life And Love

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• The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

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  Motivational, Achievement, Complicated

  Sigmund Freud (2010). “The Interpretation of Dreams”, p.590, Basic Books

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• No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.

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  Baby, Fall, Reflection

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “Three essays on the theory of sexuality”

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• Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

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  Support, Morality, Found

  "The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, Ch. 7, 1927.

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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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  Civilization, Numbers, Perspective

  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 poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

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  Scientific Method, Philosopher, Poet

  Quoted in Philip R. Lehrman, "Freud's Contributions to Science," Harofe Haivri (1940)

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• Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment.

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  Powerful, Men, Wish

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.40, Courier Dover Publications

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• One is very crazy when in love.

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  Love, Crazy, Godly

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• Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.

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  Children, Loss, Expression

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “Three contributions to the theory of sex”, Plume

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• We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.

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  Intense, Made, Enjoyment

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Freud Verbatim”, p.14, The Overlook Press

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• When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

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  Caring, Share, Prose

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• So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.

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  Two, Humanity, Unity

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.67, Courier Dover Publications

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• The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

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  Wish, Able, Aviation

  Sigmund Freud (2013). “Leonardo da Vinci”, p.75, Routledge

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• 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.

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  Love, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.16, Courier Dover Publications

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• Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.

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  Inspirational, Desire, Presses

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• The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.

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  Civilization, Renunciation

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• The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind.

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  Optimistic, Voice, Doe

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• I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

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  Adventure, Men, Conquistadors

  Letter toWilhelm Fliess, 1 Feb. 1900

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• The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

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  Inspirational, Anger, Civilization

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

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• Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

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  Crazy, Average, Mad

  "Analysis Terminable and Interminable". Book by Sigmund Freud, sect. 5, 1937.

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• If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

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  Confidence, Mother, Son

  "A Childhood Recollection from Dichtung und Wahrheit" (1917)

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