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The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on.


Sigmund Freud

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ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Analytically speaking, Sigmund Freud talked out of his arse
DEAN CAVANAGH The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.
HASIDIC SAYING As said by Sigmund Freud, if anxiety is damned up libido then, peace is nothing but a transformed li...
DR HITESH C SHETH Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
LAO TZU We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior ...
SIGMUND FREUD The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is some...
ROBERT WINSTON There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, ...
EURIPIDES The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is...
ALAN ASHLEY-PITT ...The men of those days...were absolutely not the same people that we are now; it was not the same ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY the whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair t...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS ...Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over o...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the mas...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER …it would be like gazing at the photograph of a dead comrade; those are his features, it is his fa...
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FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man
SIGMUND FREUD There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
HENRY FIELDING It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent
HONORE DE BALZAC Unfortunately in today’s world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful honest man.
MUNIA KHAN Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100 It is God Himself, personally present and...
J. S. WHALE Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Wood...
BILLY COLLINS A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself as a liar
MARK TWAIN Sigmund Freud once asserted, "Let one attempt to expose a number of the most diverse people uniforml...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL Nothing seems impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
UNKNOWN In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the c...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received...
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ANUJ SOMANY I respect the police officers, but something you learn as a young black man in this country is that....
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JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. Man would rather see himself in a mirror than see himself in the stars.
UZAY I. KOLBASI What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose p...
GORE VIDAL God is not some lesser employee, as many try to make Him out to be: rather He is the ultimate Treasu...
CRISS JAMI Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.
JACQUES LACAN Every one has wishes which he would not like to tell to others, which he does not want to admit even...
SIGMUND FREUD It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also go...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within ...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Man is so much more sensitive to the contempt of others than to contempt for himself.
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NICHOLAS SPARKS The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than o...
CRISS JAMI Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much......
DOUGLAS ADAMS The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possib...
JAMES R. COOK I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possi...
JAMES R. COOK I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possib...
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ERIN MORGENSTERN When it comes to metaphysical claims the average man, convinced that his beliefs were formed by Devi...
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MURIEL SPARK The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.
MARJORIE HOLMES A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins...
DOUGLAS ADAMS For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins...
DOUGLAS ADAMS A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
JONATHAN SWIFT Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidenc...
VINCENT VAN GOGH There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
ABRAHAM IBN ESRA There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
ABRAHAM IBN ESRA A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
JOSEPH CONRAD A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
JOSEPH CONRAD A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
MARCUS AURELIUS A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mo...
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BILL COSBY A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C.S. LEWIS Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. LEWIS Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. LEWIS The greatest man made treasures in the world, including man himself, were once just a sparkle of Lov...
SCOTTIE SOMERS He wrote very well in those days, as it happens, much better than he does now. He had absolute convi...
RICARDO PIGLIA In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.
GEORGE ELIOT There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape Nuts o...
G. K. CHESTERTON I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that le...
HERMANN HESSE Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
JOS Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
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SIGMUND FREUD Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness
SIGMUND FREUD No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some wa...
SIGMUND FREUD Those who love fairy-tales do not like it when people speak of the innate tendencies in mankind towa...
SIGMUND FREUD Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past
SIGMUND FREUD I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, ar...
SIGMUND FREUD Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief
SIGMUND FREUD The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despi...
SIGMUND FREUD Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be...
SIGMUND FREUD Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way...
SIGMUND FREUD The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may b...
SIGMUND FREUD He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
SIGMUND FREUD Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty an...
SIGMUND FREUD Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled t...
SIGMUND FREUD The fetish is a substitute for the mother's penis that the little boy had once believed in and does ...
SIGMUND FREUD O homem não tem nada melhor para fazer do que tentar estar em perfeito acordo consigo mesmo.
SIGMUND FREUD When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment;...
SIGMUND FREUD My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
SIGMUND FREUD ...we cannot fail to recognise the influence which the progressive control over natural forces exert...
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