"None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality."
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"The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions."
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"This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever."
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"Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It is said that all great men are bound to retain some infantile part. Even as an adult he continued to play, and this was another reason why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries."
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"Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing."
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"The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world."
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"The madman is a dreamer awake"
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"The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy."
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"Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free."
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"Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense."
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"Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions."
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"The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life."
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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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"The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id."
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"I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious."
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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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"I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else."
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"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."
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"The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure."
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"America is a mistake, a giant mistake."
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