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“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”
― Gustav Mahler

“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Understand or die.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss”
― Sigmund Freud

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.”
― Sigmund Freud

“America is a mistake, a giant mistake.”
― Sigmund Freud

“The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.”
― 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

“A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.”
― Sigmund Freud

“You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.”
― Freud Sigmund