Quotes by Austrian/Austria authors (page 3)

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise"

"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

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

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"America is a mistake, a giant mistake"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"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"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Where id was, there ego shall be"

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

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

"Time spent with cats is never wasted"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"The ego is not master in its own house"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

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

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises"

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

"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

"It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct"

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 youth knew; if age could"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

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

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"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"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"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"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"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"

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

"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

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