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• Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

  Sigmund Freud

  Differences, Groups, Prejudice

  Moses and Monotheism ch. 3, pt. 1 (1938)

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• If children could, if adults knew.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Adults, Ifs

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• Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Long Ago, Omnipotence

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.23, Courier Dover Publications

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• The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it. Thus in its relation to the id it is like a man on horse back, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse; with this difference, that the rider tries to do so with his own strength while the ego uses borrowed forces.

  Sigmund Freud

  Horse, Men, Differences

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

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• He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

  Sigmund Freud

  Faith, Believe, Doe

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• The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.

  Sigmund Freud

  Games, Movement, Pleasure

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• The ego is not master in its own house.

  Sigmund Freud

  Self Worth, House, Ego

  "A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis" (1917)

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• I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.

  Sigmund Freud

  Truth, Merit, Telling The Truth

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• Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

  Sigmund Freud

  Lying, People, Intellectual

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• Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness and protection from suffering. Its technique consists in depressing the value of life and distorting the picture of the real world in a delusional manner - which presupposes an intimidation of the intelligence. At this price, by forcibly fixing them in a state of psychical infantilism and by drawing them into a mass-delusion, religion succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis. But hardly anything more.

  Sigmund Freud

  Depressing, Real, Play

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

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• It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ego, World, Influence

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.

  Sigmund Freud

  Change, Grief, Loss

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• The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fate, Men, Suffering

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

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• The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this gives rise to the Oedipus complex.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mother, Father, Oedipus

  Sigmund Freud (2018). “The Ego and the Id”, p.23, Courier Dover Publications

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• Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

  Sigmund Freud

  Truth, Honesty, Jigsaw Puzzles

  SIGMUND FREUD (1939). “MOSES AND MONOTHEISM”

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• Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

  Sigmund Freud

  Peace, Home, Writing

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

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• I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

  Sigmund Freud

  Powerful, Independent, Men

  "Civilisation, War and Death".

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• Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness which can be achieved along this path is, as we see, the happiness of quietness. Against the dreaded external world one can only defend oneself by some kind of turning away from it, if one intends to solve the task by oneself.

  Sigmund Freud

  People, Solitude, Suffering

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

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• The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Atheism, Tasks, Affliction

  The Future of an Illusion Ch. 8

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• It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ideas, Argument, Human Nature

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Top of Sigmund Freud”, p.7, 谷月社

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• Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.

  Sigmund Freud

  Self, Years, Fifty

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• It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.

  Sigmund Freud

  Teamwork, Animal, Men

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• In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

  Sigmund Freud

  Running, Atheist, Long

  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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• Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Misery, Unhappiness, Hysterical

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• Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

  Sigmund Freud

  Wisdom, Justice, Smoking

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