Sigmund Freud idézet

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„Egy nap visszatekintve a küzdelem évei a legszebbnek fognak tűnni.”

„Teljesen őszinte lenni önmagaddal jó gyakorlat.”

„A sebezhetőségedből származik az erősséged.”

„A legtöbb ember nem igazán akar szabadságot, mert a szabadság felelősséggel jár, és az emberek többsége retteg a felelősségtől.”

„A felszínre nem hozott érzelmek soha nem múlnak el. Élve vannak eltemetve az emberben, és végül nagyon csúf módon törnek elő.”

„Az értelem hangja halk, de nem nyugszik, amíg meghallgatást nem nyert.”

„Hová megy egy gondolat, amikor elfelejtődik?”

„Egy nőnek meg kell puhítania, de nem gyengítenie a férfit.”

„Lehetetlen megszabadulni attól a benyomástól, hogy az emberek általában hamis mércét használnak - hogy hatalomra, sikerre és gazdagságra törekedenek, és ezeket csodálják másokban, és hogy alábecsülik azt, ami az életben valódi érték.”

„Tévedésről tévedésre haladva fedezi fel az ember a teljes igazságot.”

„Soha nem vagyunk annyira védtelenek a szenvedéssel szemben, mint amikor szeretünk.”

„A gondolkodás legbonyolultabb eredményei a tudat segítsége nélkül is lehetségesek.”

„Bárhová megyek, mindenhol azt tapasztalom, hogy egy költő már járt ott előttem.”

“Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.”

“You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.”

“No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.”

“As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.”

“How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.”

“It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.”

“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.”

“The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.”

“We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.”

“In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.”

“Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.”

“The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.”

“The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.”

“It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.”

“What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.”

“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.”

“Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.”

“Anatomy is destiny”

“One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]”

“A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.”

“The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.”

“From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.”

“We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.”

“The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.”

“The unconscious is the larger circle which includes within itself the smaller circle of the conscious; everything conscious has its preliminary step in the unconscious, whereas the unconscious may stop with this step and still claim full value as a psychic activity. Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.”

“I don't rack my brains much over the subject of good and evil, but, on average, I haven't discovered much 'good' in men. Based on what I know of them, they are for the most part nothing but scoundrels.”

“When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any more clearly for doing so.”

“But man's helplessness remains and along with it his longing for his father, and the gods. The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcise the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them.”

“Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations.”