"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

Aristotle on Discipline
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"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."

Freud, Sigmund on Repression
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"It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand."

Freud, Sigmund on Psychiatry
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"By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression."

Freud, Sigmund on Property
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"It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need."

Freud, Sigmund on Procreation
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"No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life."

Freud, Sigmund on Babies
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"The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us -- of becoming happy -- is not attainable: yet we may not -- nay, cannot -- give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other."

Freud, Sigmund on Pleasure
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"The time comes when each one 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."

Freud, Sigmund on People, Other
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"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."

Freud, Sigmund on Normality
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"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."

Freud, Sigmund on Neurosis
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"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."

Freud, Sigmund on Neurosis
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"Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill."

Freud, Sigmund on Self discovery
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"Sexual love is undoubtedly one of the chief things in life, and the union of mental and bodily satisfaction in the enjoyment of love is one of its culminating peaks. Apart from a few queer fanatics, all the world knows this and conducts its life accordingly; science alone is too delicate to admit it."

Freud, Sigmund on Sex
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"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."

Aristotle on Dignity
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"Most people would rather give than get affection."

Aristotle on Affection
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"The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one."

Aristotle on Affection
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"The ego is not master in its own house."

Freud, Sigmund on Consciousness
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"Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us."

Freud, Sigmund on Conscience
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"Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them."

Freud, Sigmund on Children
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"Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home."

Freud, Sigmund on Writers and Writing
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"From error to error, one discovers the entire truth."

Freud, Sigmund on Truth
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"The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris."

Freud, Sigmund on Body
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"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."

Freud, Sigmund on Birth
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"A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist."

Freud, Sigmund on Neurosis
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"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."

Freud, Sigmund on Morality
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"One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation."

Freud, Sigmund on Happiness
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"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."

Freud, Sigmund on America
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"We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a dark continent for psychology."

Freud, Sigmund on Girls
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"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts."

Freud, Sigmund on Flowers
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"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."

Freud, Sigmund on Fathers
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"Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body."

Freud, Sigmund on Drugs
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"The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him."

Freud, Sigmund on Doctors
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"Anatomy is destiny."

Freud, Sigmund on Destiny
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"Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."

Alexander The Great on Unity
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"If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."

Alexander The Great on self-esteem
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"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."

Freud, Sigmund on Honesty
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"I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."

Freud, Sigmund on Humankind
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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."

Freud, Sigmund on Miracles
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"The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness."

Freud, Sigmund on Mind
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"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water."

Freud, Sigmund on Mind
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