Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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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 ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#life #risk #life