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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud
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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Sigmund Freud
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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Sigmund Freud
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
Sigmund Freud
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I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
Sigmund Freud
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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.
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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
Sigmund Freud
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The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
Sigmund Freud
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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
Sigmund Freud
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Sigmund Freud
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Sigmund Freud
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The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
Sigmund Freud
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