Re: QUOTATIONS GALORE
*Classic Quotes by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Austrian psychiatrist *
**A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. **
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**A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. **
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**A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. **
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**America is a mistake, a giant mistake. **
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America is the most g*ose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. **
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**Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home. **
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**Anatomy is destiny. **
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**Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. **
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**Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them. **
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**Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. **
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**Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. **