"If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom bring...












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More Sigmund Freud quotes
"Life as we find it is too hard for us it entails too much pain too many disappointments impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.
"We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior to be the purpose and intention of their lives. Wh...
"The goal of all life is death.
"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.
"...our philosophy has preserved essential traits of animistic modes of thought such as the over-estimation of the magic of words and the belief that r...
"The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
"At this point it may be objected: well, then, if even the crabbed sceptics admit that the statements of religion cannot be confuted by reason, why sho...
"Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and em...