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Sigmund Freud Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
— Sigmund Freud, via Wikiquote
Tagged: unexpressed emotions, emotions, suppressed emotions, Feelings
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
— Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
Tagged: Freedom, Responsibility, Fear, frightened, People, Life
“Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.”
— Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
Tagged: beauty, Culture
“Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?”
— Sigmund Freud, A quote by Sigmund Freud
Tagged: Forgetting, Curiosity
“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings that puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.”
— Sigmund Freud, via Amazon
Tagged: Love, Fear in Love, Timid
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
— Sigmund Freud
Tagged: Struggle, Beautiful, beauty
“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”
— Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
Tagged: Suffering, Love, Love and Suffering, you're stronger than you think
“Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.”
— Sigmund Freud, Civilisation And Its Discontents
Tagged: Psychology, Fear, Satisfaction, Sensibility, Faith, Life Is A Journey, Psychologists
“It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the animal kingdom, and on which each individual of his species must ever again appear as a helpless infant... is a direct fulfillment of all, or of most, of the dearest wishes in his fairy-tales. All these possessions he has acquired through culture. Long ago he formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods. One may say, therefore, that these gods were the ideals of his culture. Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself. But only, it is true, in the way that ideals are usually realized in the general experience of humanity. Not completely; in some respects not at all, in others only by halves. Man has become a god by means of artificial limbs, so to speak, quite magnificent when equipped with all his accessory organs; but they do not grow on him and they still give him trouble at times... Future ages will produce further great advances in this realm of culture, probably inconceivable now, and will increase man's likeness to a god still more.”
— Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
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