Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
From Sigmund Freud
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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.
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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.
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
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