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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Ultimately no one can hear in things―books included―more than he already knows. If you have no access to something from experience, you will have no ear for it.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: emotion, expression, freud, repression, self-expression
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: psychology, thoughts
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    Sigmund Freud
    “He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
    tags: mortal, secret
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
    tags: belief, illusions, proof, religious-doctrines, truth
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
    tags: immorality, morality, support
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    Sigmund Freud
    “No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
    tags: future, gains, hope, illusion, inspirational, knowledge, progress, science, understanding
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    Sigmund Freud
    “The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
    tags: dreams, honor, virtue, wicked
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    Sigmund Freud
    “America is a mistake, a giant mistake.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
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    Sigmund Freud
    “What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ”
    ― Sigmund Freud
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    Sigmund Freud
    “The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
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    Sigmund Freud
    “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
    tags: letter-to-ferenczi
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    Sigmund 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”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
    tags: love, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology
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    Sigmund Freud
    “How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved”
    ― Freud
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.”
    ― Freud Sigmund
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: kiss, loneliness, love, nothing, smoking
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    Sigmund Freud
    “I never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me as a member”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious/The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Everyone owes nature a death.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: death, nature, nature-of-man, parting
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    Sigmund Freud
    “The weakness of my position does not imply a strengthening of yours.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion?”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
    tags: history, life
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Places are often treated like persons.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
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    Carl Sagan
    “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: evidence, faith, science, skepticism
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    Albert Einstein
    “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: education, knowledge-wisdom, learning, school, science, wisdom
    1252 likes



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