- A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
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- America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
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- Anatomy is destiny.
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- Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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- Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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- From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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- From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
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- I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.
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- I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.
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- Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.
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- Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
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- Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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- Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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- One is very crazy when in love.
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- One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.
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- Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.
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- Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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- Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.
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- Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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- The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
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- The goal of all life is death.
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- The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want
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- The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
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- We are certainly getting ahead if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar.
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- We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
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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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- 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.
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- Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
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