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Quotations By Sigmund Freud


Censorship
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Death
The goal of all life is death.

Dreams
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

Emotion
Anything that encourages the growth of emotional ties between men must operate against war.

Happiness
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.