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Sigmund Freud Quotes

"Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.""No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.""The goal of psychoanalysis is to turn neurotic misery into ordinary human unhappiness.""One thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.""Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have so to speak pawned a part of their narcissism.""How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.""A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.""Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.""Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.""The madman is a dreamer awake.""Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.""No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.""I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole.""Wherever there is a creative mind, a solution to a problem will be proposed. ""Friendship is an art of keeping distance while love is an art of intimacy.""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.""The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.""The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.""The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.""The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside."