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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

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Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

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Where id was, there ego shall be.

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Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

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

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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Psychologist

Born: May 6th, 1856

Died: September 23rd, 1939

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