“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” Anais Nin quotes
“I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living” James Cameron
"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature." FREUD
Science Quotes by Sigmund Freud (36 quotes)
A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by 'mere' words. He will feel that he is being asked to believe in magic. And he will not be so very wrong, for the words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic. But we shall have to follow a roundabout path in order to explain how science sets about restoring to words a part at least of their former magical power.
— Sigmund Freud
Psychical (or Mental) Treatment (1905), In James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1953), Vol. 7, 283.
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success.
— Sigmund Freud
Quoted in Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (1957), Vol. 1, 5.
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An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.
— Sigmund Freud
The Interpretation of Dreams (1913), 385. Sigmund Freud - 1913
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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing but they can make one feel more at home.
— Sigmund Freud
New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1933), in James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1964), Vol. 22, 72.
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Being in love with the one parent and hating the other are among the essential constituents of the stock of psychical impulses which is formed at that time and which is of such importance in determining the symptoms of the later neurosis... This discovery is confirmed by a legend that has come down to us from classical antiquity: a legend whose profound and universal power to move can only be understood if the hypothesis I have put forward in regard to the psychology of children has an equally universal validity. What I have in mind is the legend of King Oedipus and Sophocles' drama which bears his name.
— Sigmund Freud
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), In James Strachey (ed.) The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1953), Vol. 4, 260-1.
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For I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, nor an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador—an adventurer... with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort.
— Sigmund Freud
Letter to Wilhelm Fliess, 1 Feb 1900. In Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (ed.), The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess (1985), 398.
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I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.
— Sigmund Freud
Letter to Oskar Pfister, 3 Jun 1910. Quoted in H. Meng and E. Freud (eds.), Psycho-Analysis and Faith: The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Oskar Pfister (1963), 146.
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I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.
— Sigmund Freud
Letter to Albert Einstein, 8 Dec 1932. Quoted in P. Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time (1988), xvii.
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In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.
— Sigmund Freud
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905), In James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1953), Vol. 7, 220, fn 1.
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In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.
— Sigmund Freud
Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses (1898), In James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1952), Vol. 3, 266.
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In the course of centuries the naïve self-love of men has had to submit to two major blows at the hands of science. The first was when they learnt that our earth was not the centre of the universe but only a tiny fragment of a cosmic system of scarcely imaginable vastness... the second blow fell when biological research destroyed man's supposedly privileged place in creation and proved his descent from the animal kingdom and his ineradicable animal nature… But human megalomania will have suffered its third and most wounding blow from the psychological research of the present time which seeks to prove to the ego that it is not even master in its own house, but must content itself with scanty information of what is going on unconsciously in its mind.
— Sigmund Freud
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalyis (1916), in James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1963), Vol. 16, 284-5.
Science quotes on: | Psychoanalysis (20)
In this House on July 24, 1895 the Secret of Dreams was revealed to Dr. Sigmund Freud.
Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers.
— Sigmund Freud
From a letter to Wilhelm Fliess, 20 Jun 1900. Quoted in Ernst L. Freud (ed.), Letters of Sigmund Freud 1873-1939 (1961), 250.
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In view of the kind of matter we work with, it will never be possible to avoid little laboratory explosions.
— Sigmund Freud
Letter to Carl Jung, 18 Jun 1909. Quoted in William McGuire (ed.), The Freud-Jung Letters: The Correspondence between Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung (1974), 235.
Science quotes on: | Psychoanalysis (20)
It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics—ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind—and the fact that in physics atoms which were yesterday assumed to be square are now assumed to be round is exploited with unjustified tendentiousness by all who are hungry for faith; so long as physics extends our dominion over nature, these changes ought to be a matter of complete indifference to you.
— Sigmund Freud
Letter to Oskar Pfister, 24 Feb 1928. Quoted in H. Meng and E. Freud (eds.), Psycho-Analysis and Faith: The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Oscar Pfister (1963), 123.
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Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world.
— Sigmund Freud
Neurosis and Psychosis (1924), in James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1961), Vol. 19, 149.
Science quotes on: | Ego (3) | Neurosis (6) | Psychoanalysis (20)
No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.
— Sigmund Freud
Three Essays on Sexuality: Infantile Sexuality (1905), In James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1953), Vol 7, 182.
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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
— Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion (1927), in James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1961), Vol. 21, 56.
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Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.
— Sigmund Freud
In Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham, And I Quote (1992), 232. [Webmaster found no primary print source. Can you help?]
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Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
— Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion (1927), 53.
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Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.
— Sigmund Freud
Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (1905), In James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1953), Vol. 7, 115.
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Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.
— Sigmund Freud
Letter to Martha Bernays, 22 Jan 1884. Quoted in P. Gay, Freud: A Life For Our Time (1988), 39.
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
— Sigmund Freud
Attributed.
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The ego is not master in its own house.
— Sigmund Freud
From the History of an Infantile Neuroses (1918), in James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1955), Vol. 17, 143.
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The excremental is all too intimately and inseparably bound up with the sexual; the position of the genitals--inter urinas et faeces—remains the decisive and unchangeable factor. One might say here, varying a well-known saying of the great Napoleon: 'Anatomy is destiny'.
— Sigmund Freud
On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love (Contributions to the Psychology of Love) (1912), In James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1957), Vol 11, 189.
Science quotes on: | Psychoanalysis (20)
The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction … One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgements of value follow directly from his wihes for happiness—that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. (1930)
— Sigmund Freud
Civilization and its Discontents (2005), 154.
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The great question that has never been answered and which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
Freud once said to Marie Bonaparte.
— Sigmund Freud
Quoted in Ernest Jones (ed.), Sigmund Freud: Life and Work (1955), Vol. 2, 468.
Science quotes on: | Psychoanalysis (20) | Woman (25)
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
— Sigmund Freud
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), In James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1953), Vol. 5, 608.
Science quotes on: | Mind (172) | Psychoanalysis (20)
The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.
— Sigmund Freud
Civillzation and Its Discontents (1930), in James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1978), Vol. 21, 134.
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The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an "unjust and malicious manner; it has truly not had time enough yet for these great achievements. Science is very young—-a human activity which developed late.
— Sigmund Freud
The Question of a Weltanschauung? (1932), in James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1964), Vol. 22, 173.
Science quotes on: | Science (580)
The unconscious is the true psychical reality; in its innermost nature it is as much unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is as incompletely presented by the data of consciousness as is the external world by the communications of our sense organs.
— Sigmund Freud
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), In James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1953), Vol. 5, 613.
Science quotes on: | Psychoanalysis (20)
We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.
— Sigmund Freud
The Question of Lay Analysis (1926), in James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1959), Vol. 20, 212.
Science quotes on: | Sexuality (9)
We may lay it down that a happy person never phantasises, only an unsatisfied one... The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfilment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality. These motivating wishes vary according to the sex, character and circumstances of the person who is having the phantasy; but they fall naturally into two main groups. They are either ambitious wishes, which serve to elevate the subject's personality; or they are erotic ones. It was shocking when Nietzsche said this, but today it is commonplace; our historical position—and no end to it is in sight—is that of having to philosophise without 'foundations'.
— Sigmund Freud
Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming (1906), In James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychcological Works of Sigmund Freud (1959), Vol 9, 146-7.
Science quotes on: | Psychoanalysis (20)
When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
— Sigmund Freud
Attributed.
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Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more the need there is for wit.
— Sigmund Freud
Attributed.
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You may take it as an instance of male injustice if I assert that envy and jealousy play an even greater part in the mental life of women than of men. It is not that I think these characteristics are absent in men or that I think they have no other roots in women than envy for the penis; but I am inclined to attribute their greater amount in women to this latter influence.
— Sigmund Freud
New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1933), in James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1964), Vol. 22, 125.
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[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real.
— Sigmund Freud
Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming (1906), In James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychcological Works of Sigmund Freud (1959), Vol 9, 144. —
“I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living” James Cameron
"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature." FREUD
Science Quotes by Sigmund Freud (36 quotes)
A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by 'mere' words. He will feel that he is being asked to believe in magic. And he will not be so very wrong, for the words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic. But we shall have to follow a roundabout path in order to explain how science sets about restoring to words a part at least of their former magical power.
— Sigmund Freud
Psychical (or Mental) Treatment (1905), In James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1953), Vol. 7, 283.
Science quotes on: | Psychoanalysis (20)
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success.
— Sigmund Freud
Quoted in Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (1957), Vol. 1, 5.
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An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.
— Sigmund Freud
The Interpretation of Dreams (1913), 385. Sigmund Freud - 1913
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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing but they can make one feel more at home.
— Sigmund Freud
New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1933), in James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1964), Vol. 22, 72.
Science quotes on: | Analogy (19)
Being in love with the one parent and hating the other are among the essential constituents of the stock of psychical impulses which is formed at that time and which is of such importance in determining the symptoms of the later neurosis... This discovery is confirmed by a legend that has come down to us from classical antiquity: a legend whose profound and universal power to move can only be understood if the hypothesis I have put forward in regard to the psychology of children has an equally universal validity. What I have in mind is the legend of King Oedipus and Sophocles' drama which bears his name.
— Sigmund Freud
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), In James Strachey (ed.) The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1953), Vol. 4, 260-1.
Science quotes on: | Parent (12) | Psychoanalysis (20)
For I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, nor an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador—an adventurer... with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort.
— Sigmund Freud
Letter to Wilhelm Fliess, 1 Feb 1900. In Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (ed.), The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess (1985), 398.
Science quotes on: | Autobiography (42)
I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.
— Sigmund Freud
Letter to Oskar Pfister, 3 Jun 1910. Quoted in H. Meng and E. Freud (eds.), Psycho-Analysis and Faith: The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Oskar Pfister (1963), 146.
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I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.
— Sigmund Freud
Letter to Albert Einstein, 8 Dec 1932. Quoted in P. Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time (1988), xvii.
Science quotes on: | Autobiography (42) | Truth (309)
In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.
— Sigmund Freud
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905), In James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1953), Vol. 7, 220, fn 1.
Science quotes on: | Sexuality (9)
In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.
— Sigmund Freud
Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses (1898), In James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1952), Vol. 3, 266.
Science quotes on: | Psychoanalysis (20) | Sexuality (9)
In the course of centuries the naïve self-love of men has had to submit to two major blows at the hands of science. The first was when they learnt that our earth was not the centre of the universe but only a tiny fragment of a cosmic system of scarcely imaginable vastness... the second blow fell when biological research destroyed man's supposedly privileged place in creation and proved his descent from the animal kingdom and his ineradicable animal nature… But human megalomania will have suffered its third and most wounding blow from the psychological research of the present time which seeks to prove to the ego that it is not even master in its own house, but must content itself with scanty information of what is going on unconsciously in its mind.
— Sigmund Freud
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalyis (1916), in James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1963), Vol. 16, 284-5.
Science quotes on: | Psychoanalysis (20)
In this House on July 24, 1895 the Secret of Dreams was revealed to Dr. Sigmund Freud.
Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers.
— Sigmund Freud
From a letter to Wilhelm Fliess, 20 Jun 1900. Quoted in Ernst L. Freud (ed.), Letters of Sigmund Freud 1873-1939 (1961), 250.
Science quotes on: | Dream (26)
In view of the kind of matter we work with, it will never be possible to avoid little laboratory explosions.
— Sigmund Freud
Letter to Carl Jung, 18 Jun 1909. Quoted in William McGuire (ed.), The Freud-Jung Letters: The Correspondence between Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung (1974), 235.
Science quotes on: | Psychoanalysis (20)
It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics—ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind—and the fact that in physics atoms which were yesterday assumed to be square are now assumed to be round is exploited with unjustified tendentiousness by all who are hungry for faith; so long as physics extends our dominion over nature, these changes ought to be a matter of complete indifference to you.
— Sigmund Freud
Letter to Oskar Pfister, 24 Feb 1928. Quoted in H. Meng and E. Freud (eds.), Psycho-Analysis and Faith: The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Oscar Pfister (1963), 123.
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Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world.
— Sigmund Freud
Neurosis and Psychosis (1924), in James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1961), Vol. 19, 149.
Science quotes on: | Ego (3) | Neurosis (6) | Psychoanalysis (20)
No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.
— Sigmund Freud
Three Essays on Sexuality: Infantile Sexuality (1905), In James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1953), Vol 7, 182.
Science quotes on: | Sexuality (9)
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
— Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion (1927), in James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1961), Vol. 21, 56.
Science quotes on: | Science (580)
Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.
— Sigmund Freud
In Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham, And I Quote (1992), 232. [Webmaster found no primary print source. Can you help?]
Science quotes on: | Psychiatry (8)
Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
— Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion (1927), 53.
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Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.
— Sigmund Freud
Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (1905), In James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1953), Vol. 7, 115.
Science quotes on: | Neurosis (6) | Psychoanalysis (20) | Sexuality (9)
Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.
— Sigmund Freud
Letter to Martha Bernays, 22 Jan 1884. Quoted in P. Gay, Freud: A Life For Our Time (1988), 39.
Science quotes on: | Smoking (11)
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
— Sigmund Freud
Attributed.
Science quotes on: | Quip (63)
The ego is not master in its own house.
— Sigmund Freud
From the History of an Infantile Neuroses (1918), in James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1955), Vol. 17, 143.
Science quotes on: | Ego (3) | Psychoanalysis (20)
The excremental is all too intimately and inseparably bound up with the sexual; the position of the genitals--inter urinas et faeces—remains the decisive and unchangeable factor. One might say here, varying a well-known saying of the great Napoleon: 'Anatomy is destiny'.
— Sigmund Freud
On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love (Contributions to the Psychology of Love) (1912), In James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1957), Vol 11, 189.
Science quotes on: | Psychoanalysis (20)
The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction … One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgements of value follow directly from his wihes for happiness—that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. (1930)
— Sigmund Freud
Civilization and its Discontents (2005), 154.
Science quotes on: | Culture (30) | Happiness (41) | Man (172)
The great question that has never been answered and which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
Freud once said to Marie Bonaparte.
— Sigmund Freud
Quoted in Ernest Jones (ed.), Sigmund Freud: Life and Work (1955), Vol. 2, 468.
Science quotes on: | Psychoanalysis (20) | Woman (25)
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
— Sigmund Freud
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), In James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1953), Vol. 5, 608.
Science quotes on: | Mind (172) | Psychoanalysis (20)
The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.
— Sigmund Freud
Civillzation and Its Discontents (1930), in James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1978), Vol. 21, 134.
Science quotes on: | Civilization (58)
The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an "unjust and malicious manner; it has truly not had time enough yet for these great achievements. Science is very young—-a human activity which developed late.
— Sigmund Freud
The Question of a Weltanschauung? (1932), in James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1964), Vol. 22, 173.
Science quotes on: | Science (580)
The unconscious is the true psychical reality; in its innermost nature it is as much unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is as incompletely presented by the data of consciousness as is the external world by the communications of our sense organs.
— Sigmund Freud
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), In James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1953), Vol. 5, 613.
Science quotes on: | Psychoanalysis (20)
We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.
— Sigmund Freud
The Question of Lay Analysis (1926), in James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1959), Vol. 20, 212.
Science quotes on: | Sexuality (9)
We may lay it down that a happy person never phantasises, only an unsatisfied one... The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfilment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality. These motivating wishes vary according to the sex, character and circumstances of the person who is having the phantasy; but they fall naturally into two main groups. They are either ambitious wishes, which serve to elevate the subject's personality; or they are erotic ones. It was shocking when Nietzsche said this, but today it is commonplace; our historical position—and no end to it is in sight—is that of having to philosophise without 'foundations'.
— Sigmund Freud
Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming (1906), In James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychcological Works of Sigmund Freud (1959), Vol 9, 146-7.
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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
— Sigmund Freud
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Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more the need there is for wit.
— Sigmund Freud
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You may take it as an instance of male injustice if I assert that envy and jealousy play an even greater part in the mental life of women than of men. It is not that I think these characteristics are absent in men or that I think they have no other roots in women than envy for the penis; but I am inclined to attribute their greater amount in women to this latter influence.
— Sigmund Freud
New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1933), in James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1964), Vol. 22, 125.
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[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real.
— Sigmund Freud
Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming (1906), In James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychcological Works of Sigmund Freud (1959), Vol 9, 144. —
Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
Paracelsus But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater? Paracelsus Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration. Paracelsus Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true. Paracelsus For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation. Paracelsus For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region. Paracelsus From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them. Paracelsus However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream. Paracelsus If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed. Paracelsus Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines. Paracelsus Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided. Paracelsus Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. Paracelsus Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man. Paracelsus Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many. Paracelsus Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster. Paracelsus Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy. Paracelsus The dose makes the poison. Paracelsus The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament. Paracelsus The interpretation of dreams is a great art. Paracelsus The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities. Paracelsus This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine. Paracelsus This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan. Paracelsus Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. Paracelsus We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. Paracelsus What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them? Paracelsus What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross. Paracelsus http://www.messagefrommasters.com/Spiritual_Quotes/Osho/osho_chakras_quotes1.htm
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? Stephen Hawking God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. Stephen Hawking I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. Stephen Hawking I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Stephen Hawking If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist. Stephen Hawking Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. Stephen Hawking It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years. Stephen Hawking It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. Stephen Hawking Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty. Stephen Hawking My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. Stephen Hawking Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. Stephen Hawking One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem. Stephen Hawking Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. Stephen Hawking The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? Stephen Hawking The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. Stephen Hawking There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. Stephen Hawking To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. Stephen Hawking We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. Stephen Hawking Stephen Hawking quotes (showing 1-50 of 50)"Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?" — Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time: The Updated and Expanded Tenth Anniversary Edition)tags: philosophy , science252 people liked itlike"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." — Stephen Hawkingtags: ignorance , knowledge221 people liked itlike"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special." — Stephen Hawkingtags: inspirational , science140 people liked itlike"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road." — Stephen Hawking139 people liked itlike"[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth." — Stephen Hawkingtags: humor , science , stupidity81 people liked itlike"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image." — Stephen Hawkingtags: computer-viruses , computers , creation64 people liked itlike"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. " — Stephen Hawking60 people liked itlike"One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away." — Stephen Hawkingtags: philosophy , science50 people liked itlike"The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope." — Stephen Hawking48 people liked itlike"It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious." — Stephen Hawking46 people liked itlike"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all." — Stephen Hawkingtags: goal-universe-understanding45 people liked itlike"My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus." — Stephen Hawking43 people liked itlike"The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. Thewheelchair gives me away." — Stephen Hawkingtags: humor , science34 people liked itlike"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." — Stephen Hawking32 people liked itlike"So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?" — Stephen Hawkingtags: religion , science31 people liked itlike"Not only does God play dice but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen." — Stephen Hawking29 people liked itlike" You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it." — Stephen Hawking27 people liked itlike"I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space." — Stephen Hawking25 people liked itlike"thus, in a sense, we are all doomed. even if we stay away from black holes" — Stephen Hawking24 people liked itlike"There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works." — Stephen Hawking23 people liked itlike"What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary." — Stephen Hawkingtags: philosophy , physics23 people liked itlike"One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer." — Stephen Hawking16 people liked itlike"Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away." — Stephen Hawking14 people liked itlike"Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur." — Stephen Hawking14 people liked itlike"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value." — Stephen Hawkingtags: science13 people liked itlike"i do not fear death but i am in no hury to die" — Stephen Hawkingtags:12 people liked itlike"We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet," — Stephen Hawkingtags: human , life12 people liked itlike"It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist." — Stephen Hawking12 people liked itlike"Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions." — Stephen Hawking (Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays)tags: physics11 people liked itlike"I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street" — Stephen Hawkingtags: chance , death , destiny , life10 people liked itlike"One could say: "The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary." The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by anything outside itself. It would neither be created nor destroyed. It would just BE." — Stephen Hawking9 people liked itlike"God abhors a naked singularity." — Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time: The Updated and Expanded Tenth Anniversary Edition)tags: physics9 people liked itlike"A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At teh end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever, " said the old lady. "But it turtles all the way down!" — Stephen Hawking9 people liked itlike"Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. (The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible." — Stephen Hawking9 people liked itlike"People who boast about their IQ are losers" — Stephen Hawking8 people liked itlike"Life would be tragic if it weren't funny." — Stephen Hawkingtags: humour , science , wisdom8 people liked itlike"We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from this was not to begin a sentence with And. I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with And, but I was told that English had changed since the time of King James. In that case, I argued, why make us read the Bible? But it was in vain. Robert Graves was very keen on the symbolism and mysticism in the Bible at that time." — Stephen Hawking (Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays)tags: grammar , language8 people liked itlike"The Universe in a Nutshell" — Stephen Hawking8 people liked itlike"So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen." — Stephen Hawking7 people liked itlike"One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist" — Stephen Hawking7 people liked itlike"Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free." — Stephen Hawking (Lectures by Stephen W Hawking)7 people liked itlike"I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark" — Stephen Hawkingtags: god , life , science , stephen-hawking6 people liked itlike"What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." — Stephen Hawking (A Briefer History of Time)tags: post-certainty6 people liked itlike"In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars." — Stephen Hawking6 people liked itlike"Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life." — Stephen Hawking5 people liked itlike"Up to now, most scientists have been too occupied with the development of new theories that describe what the universe is to ask the question why. On the other hand, the people who business it is to ask why, the philosophers, have not been able to keep up with the advance of scientific theories....However, if we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason--for then we would know the mind of God." — Stephen Hawking5 people liked itlike"I don't know what my IQ is. People who gloat about their IQ's are losers" — Stephen Hawking4 people liked itlike"The Greatest enemy of knowledge isn’t ignorance; it’s the illusion of knowledge" — Stephen Hawking4 people liked itlike"The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired." — Stephen Hawking2 people liked itlike"Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in." — Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time: The Updated and Expanded Tenth Anniversary Edition)tags: science1 person liked itlike |
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Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle. Aleister Crowley Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Aleister Crowley Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. Aleister Crowley I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman. Aleister Crowley I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. Aleister Crowley I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. Aleister Crowley I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. Aleister Crowley I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff. Aleister Crowley If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad. Aleister Crowley In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. Aleister Crowley Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics. Aleister Crowley Intolerance is evidence of impotence. Aleister Crowley Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. Aleister Crowley Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. Aleister Crowley Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life. Aleister Crowley Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty. Aleister Crowley Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. Aleister Crowley The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. Aleister Crowley The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. Aleister Crowley The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. Aleister Crowley The people who have really made history are the martyrs. Aleister Crowley The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. Aleister Crowley The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell. Aleister Crowley To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. Aleister Crowley To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. Aleister Crowley ANCIENT EGYPT Egyptian Proverbs were a very important part of the Ancient religion of Egypt, one of the main religious concepts the Egyptians had was "know thyself." Their spiritual aspect of this concept held that within man is the divine essence of the Creator and the Heavens. And this finds expression in their teaching: "The kingdom of heaven is within you; and whosoever shall know himself shall find it." Proverbs were held as a teaching method for a man to understand the universe, thus they were inscribed in temples and tombs of Egypt, these inscriptions might be the first "Holy Book" known by man. Below are some of the powerful teachings proverbs found in the temples of Luxor. The best and shortest road towards knowledge of truth is Nature. For every joy there is a price to be paid. If his heart rules him, his conscience will soon take the place of the rod. What you are doing does not matter so much as what you are learning from doing it. It is better not to know and to know that one does not know, than presumptuously to attribute some random meaning to symbols. If you search for the laws of harmony, you will find knowledge. If you are searching for a Neter, observe Nature! Exuberance is a good stimulus towards action, but the inner light grows in silence and concentration. Not the greatest Master can go even one step for his disciple; in himself he must experience each stage of developing consciousness. Therefore he will know nothing for which he is not ripe. True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awaking of consciousness which goes through successive stages. The man who knows how to lead one of his brothers towards what he has known may one day be saved by that very brother. People bring about their own undoing through their tongues. If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck. Leave him in error who loves his error. Every man is rich in excuses to safeguard his prejudices, his instincts, and his opinions. To know means: to record in one"s memory; but to understand means to blend with the thing and to assimilate it oneself. There are two kinds of error: blind credulity and piecemeal criticism. Never believe a word without putting its truth to the test; discernment does not grow in laziness; and this faculty of discernment is indispensable to the Seeker. Sound skepticism is the necessary condition for good discernment; but piecemeal criticism is an error. Love is one thing, knowledge is another. True sages are those who give what they have, without meanness and without secret! An answer brings no illumination unless the question has matured to a point where it gives rise to this answer which thus becomes its fruit. Therefore learn how to put a question. What reveals itself to me ceases to be mysterious—for me alone: if I unveil it to anyone else, he hears mere words which betray the living sense: Profanation, but never revelation. The first concerning the "secrets": all cognition comes from inside; we are therefore initiated only by ourselves, but the Master gives the keys. The second concerning the "way": the seeker has need of a Master to guide him and lift him up when he falls, to lead him back to the right way when he strays. Understanding develops by degrees. If the Master teaches what is error, the disciple"s submission is slavery; if he teaches truth, this submission is ennoblement. There grows no wheat where there is no grain. The only thing that is humiliating is helplessness. Listen to your conviction, even if they seem absurd to your reason. Know the world in yourself. Never look for yourself in the world, for this would be to project your illusion. To teach one must know the nature of those whom one is teaching. In every vital activity it is the path that matters. The way of knowledge is narrow. Each truth you learn will be, for you, as new as if it had never been written. The only active force that arises out of possession is fear of losing the object of possession. If you defy an enemy by doubting his courage you double it. The nut doesn"t reveal the tree it contains. For knowledge ... you should know that peace is an indispensable condition of getting it. The first thing necessary in teaching is a master; the second is a pupil capable of carrying on the tradition. Peace is the fruit of activity, not of sleep. Envious greed must govern to possess and ambition must possess to govern. When the governing class isn"t chosen for quality it is chosen for material wealth: this always means decadence, the lowest stage a society can reach. One foot isn"t enough to walk with. Our senses serve to affirm, not to know. We mustn"t confuse mastery with mimicry, knowledge with superstitious ignorance. Physical consciousness is indispensable for the achievement of knowledge. A man can"t be judged of his neighbor"s intelligence. His own vital experience is never his neighbor"s. No discussion can throw light if it wanders from the real point. Your body is the temple of knowledge. Experience will show you, a Master can only point the way. A house has the character of the man who lives in it. All organs work together in the functioning of the whole. A pupil may show you by his own efforts how much he deserves to learn from you. Routine and prejudice distort vision.Each man thinks his own horizon is the limit of the world. You will free yourself when you learn to be neutral and follow the instructions of your heart. Judge by cause, not by effect. Growth in consciousness doesn"t depend on the will of the intellect or its possibilities but on the intensity of the inner urge. Every man must act in the rhythm of his time ... such is wisdom. Men need images. Lacking them they invent idols. Better then to found the images on realities that lead the true seeker to the source. Everyone finds himself in the world where he belongs. The essential thing is to have a fixed point from which to check its reality now and then. Always watch and follow nature. A phenomenon always arises from the interaction of complementaries. If you want something look for the complement that will elicit it. All seed answer light, but the color is different. The plant reveals what is in the seed. Popular beliefs on essential matters must be examined in order to discover the original thought. It is the passive resistance from the helm that steers the boat. The key to all problems is the problem of consciousness. Man must learn to increase his sense of responsibility and of the fact that everything he does will have its consequences. If you would build something solid, don"t work with wind: always look for a fixed point, something you know that is stable ... yourself. If you would know yourself, take yourself as starting point and go back to its source; your beginning will disclose your end. Images are nearer reality than cold definitions. Seek peacefully, you will find. Organization is impossible unless those who know the laws of harmony lay the foundation. Knowledge is consciousness of reality. Reality is the sum of the laws that govern nature and of the causes from which they flow. Social good is what brings peace to family and society. Knowledge is not necessarily wisdom. By knowing one reaches belief. By doing one gains conviction. When you know, dare. Altruism is the mark of a superior being. All is within yourself. Know your most inward self and look for what corresponds with it in nature. The seed cannot sprout upwards without simultaneously sending roots into the ground. The seed includes all the possibilities of the tree. ... The seed will develop these possibilities, however, only if it receives corresponding energies from the sky. Grain must return to the earth, die, and decompose for new growth to begin. Man, know thyself ... and thou shalt know the gods. Plato Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.PlatoDeath is not the worst that can happen to men.PlatoIf women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.Plato- More quotations on: [Men And Women]Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.Plato- More quotations on: [Ignorance]Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.Plato- More quotations on: [Laws]Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.PlatoNever discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.PlatoNever discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.Plato- More quotations on: [Progress]No human thing is of serious importance.PlatoOnly the dead have seen the end of war.PlatoThe price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.PlatoThere is no such thing as a lover's oath.PlatoThey certainly give very strange names to diseases.PlatoThinking is the talking of the soul with itself.PlatoWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.PlatoWise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.PlatoYou can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.PlatoNo evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.Plato, Dialogues, Apology- More quotations on: [Evil]You cannot conceive the many without the one.Plato, Dialogues, ParmenidesFalse words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo- More quotations on: [Lies]Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo- More quotations on: [Death]The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.Plato, Dialogues, PhaedoFriends have all things in common.Plato, Dialogues, Phaedrus- More quotations on: [Friendship]The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.Plato, Dialogues, TheatetusYou are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus- More quotations on: [Opinions]Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.Plato, The Republic- More quotations on: [Light]Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.Plato, The RepublicBodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato, The Republic- More quotations on: [Body]Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.Plato, The Republic The most we can do is to dream the myth onwards and give it a modern dress. And whatever explanation or interpretation does to it, we do to our own souls as well, with corresponding results for our own well-being. C.G. Jung, |
All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it... Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
Emile Durkheim
It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
Emile Durkheim
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
Emile Durkheim
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
Emile Durkheim
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
Emile Durkheim
It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
Emile Durkheim
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
Emile Durkheim
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
Emile Durkheim
“You may control a mad elephant;
You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger;
Ride the lion and play with the cobra;
By alchemy you may learn your livelihood;
You may wander through the universe incognito;
Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful;
You may walk in water and live in fire;
But control of the mind is better and more difficult.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger;
Ride the lion and play with the cobra;
By alchemy you may learn your livelihood;
You may wander through the universe incognito;
Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful;
You may walk in water and live in fire;
But control of the mind is better and more difficult.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi