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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Sigmund Freud
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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
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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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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
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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.
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Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
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