Famous quotes by Psychologists

"Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being!"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"He does not believe that does not live according to his belief "

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Everywhere I go, I find that a poet has been there before me"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Dreams are often most profound, when they seem the most crazy"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"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"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life, at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"One is very crazy when in love"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"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"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"If you can't do it, give up!"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Man always dies before he is fully born"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"In love, the paradox occurs that two beings become one, and yet remain two"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

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