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freud | We are what we are because we have been what we have been. | history |
freud | From error to error one discovers the entire truth. | null |
freud | Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination. | love |
freud | When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless. | ethics |
freud | Not all men are worthy of love. | null |
freud | The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving. | null |
freud | It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love. | love |
freud | The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all. | null |
freud | A woman should soften but not weaken a man. | ethics;knowledge |
freud | The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father. | knowledge |
freud | When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves | love |
freud | All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love. | love |
freud | The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself! | education;ethics |
freud | Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry | religion |
freud | Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love. | null |
freud | I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. | null |
freud | The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. | ethics |
freud | The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well. | null |
freud | Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to some vague abstraction which they have created for themselves; having done so they can pose before all the world as deists, as believers of God, and they can even boast that they have recognized a higher, purer concept of God, notwithstanding that their God is not nothing more than an insubstantial shadow and no longer the mighty personality of religious doctrines. | religion;knowledge |
freud | Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise. | religion |
freud | Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war. | knowledge;ethics |
freud | The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him. | ethics |
freud | The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. | history |
freud | In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself. | null |
freud | This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects. | null |
freud | 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. | love |
freud | Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness and protection from suffering. Its technique consists in depressing the value of life and distorting the picture of the real world in a delusional manner - which presupposes an intimidation of the intelligence. At this price, by forcibly fixing them in a state of psychical infantilism and by drawing them into a mass-delusion, religion succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis. But hardly anything more. | religion |
freud | Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. | null |
freud | Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor. | religion |
freud | When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life. | love |
freud | 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. | null |
freud | The world is no nursery. | null |
freud | At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father. | religion |
freud | Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home. | null |
freud | Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times. | null |
freud | The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic. | religion |
freud | It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness - just as the pleasure principle itself, indeed, under the influence of the external world, changed into the more modest reality principle -, if a man thinks himself happy merely to have escaped unhappiness or to have survived his suffering, and if in general the task of avoiding suffering pushes that of obtaining pleasure into the background. | knowledge;ethics |
freud | One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed. | politics |
freud | [The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture. | null |
freud | The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse. | ethics |
freud | Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love | love;ethics |
freud | I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment. | knowledge;education |
freud | To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us. | null |
freud | There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its grasp; and if, as a result of special circumstances, it is unable to establish a true connection, it does not hesitate to fabricate a false one. | null |
freud | A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content. | null |
freud | When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly suprised at the weakness of his intellect. | religion |
freud | The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the father, clothed in the grandeur in which he once appeared to the small child. | knowledge |
freud | 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. | null |
freud | Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us O'er the world's tempestuous sea; Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee. | religion;love;knowledge;ethics |
freud | Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state -- admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological -- in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that "I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact. | love |
nietzsche | Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. | ethics;education;politics |
nietzsche | To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. | ethics |
nietzsche | Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. | ethics |
nietzsche | No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. | knowledge;ethics |
nietzsche | Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. | politics |
nietzsche | Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen. | politics;knowledge |
nietzsche | The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind. | ethics |
nietzsche | Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live. | ethics |
nietzsche | The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously. | null |
nietzsche | It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. | null |
nietzsche | To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence. | knowledge |
nietzsche | The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame. | knowledge;ethics;politics;education |
nietzsche | The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man. | null |
nietzsche | Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character. | ethics |
nietzsche | Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity. | knowledge;love |
nietzsche | The real question is: How much truth can I stand? | ethics |
nietzsche | The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. | null |
nietzsche | There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth. | null |
nietzsche | There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. | love |
nietzsche | There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all. | null |
nietzsche | What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon. | null |
nietzsche | You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty. | knowledge;love |
nietzsche | Invisible threads are the strongest ties. | ethics |
nietzsche | The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest. | knowledge |
nietzsche | To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts. | education;knowledge |
nietzsche | For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them! | ethics;knowledge |
nietzsche | He who obeys, does not listen to himself! | ethics |
nietzsche | No journey is too great, | ethics |
nietzsche | In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man. | null |
nietzsche | People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings. | ethics |
nietzsche | Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar. | politics;knowledge;ethics |
nietzsche | Without music, life would be a mistake. | null |
nietzsche | All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down. | null |
nietzsche | Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love. | love;ethics |
nietzsche | What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness. | null |
nietzsche | Beware of spitting against the wind! | ethics |
nietzsche | Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them. | null |
nietzsche | the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls | love;education |
nietzsche | Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed. | ethics |
nietzsche | There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species. | ethics;knowledge |
nietzsche | For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks. | null |
nietzsche | The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. | knowledge;ethics;education |
nietzsche | The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper. | knowledge |
nietzsche | Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest | null |
nietzsche | The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. | null |
nietzsche | It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. | ethics;knowledge;politics |
nietzsche | A moral system valid for all is basically immoral. | null |
nietzsche | Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship. | null |
nietzsche | Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. | ethics |
nietzsche | What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope. | null |