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81 " That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal. "
― Sigmund Freud
82 " The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. "
83 " America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. "
84 " I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures. "
― Sigmund Freud , Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
85 " ...we cannot fail to recognise the influence which the progressive control over natural forces exerts on the social relationships between men, since men always place their newly won powers at the service of their aggressiveness, and use them against one another. "
― Sigmund Freud , New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
86 " Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us. "
87 " 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. "
88 " You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father. "
89 " A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa. "
― Sigmund Freud , The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works, 24 Vols
90 " We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism. "
― Sigmund Freud , Moses and Monotheism
91 " Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. "
92 " I may now add that 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. "
― Sigmund Freud , Civilization and Its Discontents
93 " I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador — an adventurer, if you want it translated — with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort. "
94 " We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself. "
95 " I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream. "
― Sigmund Freud , The Interpretation of Dreams
96 " 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. "
97 " The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside. "
98 " Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. "
99 " It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour. "
― Sigmund Freud , The Ego and the Id
100 " It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct.... "