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Sigmund Freud Quotes

Short Bio:

Sigmund Freud was born on the 6th of May 1856 in Moravia, in the Austrian Empire. He was an Austrian neurologist best known for developing the theories and techniques of psychoanalysis.

More Notable Quotes:

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
"We are what we are because we have been what we have been.
"History is just new people making old mistakes.
"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
"Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
"It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
"Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
"In general people interpret slips of the tongue just as I do, even if they do not support my ideas.

"Those dreams best fulfill their function about which one knows nothing after waking.

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