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Attributed quotes — Sigmund Freud

1856–1939 Austria

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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations.

Attributed Anna Freud in the preface to the (1981)

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.

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...three of life's most important areas: work, love, and taking responsibility.

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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

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America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.

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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.

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I don't rack my brains much over the subject of good and evil, but, on average, I haven't discovered much 'good' in men. Based on what I know of them, they are for the most part nothing but scoundrels.

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