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Sigmund Freud Quotes

«When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature»
Author: Sigmund Freud (Founder) | About: Choice, Life, Nature, Needs
«It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to»
«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.»
«We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.»
Author: Sigmund Freud (Founder) | Keywords: reckon, unfavorable
«We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment from a contrast and very little from a state of things.»
«I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.»
«Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another»
«What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.»
«People are made either to sufffer or to destroy.»
«I have yet not been able to answer the great question that has never been answered. 'What does a woman want?»
Author: Sigmund Freud (Founder) | Keywords: answered

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