Art of Wisdom
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
“One day you will look back and realize that the years of struggle were the best years of your life.”
“For a while I thought I understood people, then I realized I didn't.”
“Apologizing does not mean that you are wrong. It shows that you value the other person more than your ego.”
“Unexpressed feelings never die; they are only buried alive and then reappear in terrible forms.”
“To sleep too much is to run away, to sleep too little is to be caught.”
“The first man who chose to swear instead of fight was the founder of civilization.”
“Unfortunately, just because everyone who can think is human does not mean that everyone who is human can think.”
“Everywhere I went, I found a poet who had been there before me.”
“The mind is like an iceberg, only one-seventh of it is above water.”
“The only person you have to compare yourself to is your past self.”
“Procrastination doesn't work. Suffering must be endured. Even if it bleeds, even if it hurts, even if it makes you cry.”
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, make sure you are not surrounded by idiots.”
“You can say anything with a joke. Even the truth.”
“The love and anger you feel for someone is directly proportional. You get angry with the person you love the most, more than anyone else.”
“He who has nothing to kiss will inevitably smoke tobacco.”
“Trust your head in small matters and your heart in big ones.”
“Go deep into your soul and learn to know yourself first. Once you do, you will understand why you have this disease and perhaps you will never get sick again.”
“Remember that unnecessary criticism is just secret admiration.”
“The greatest show in the universe begins the moment you discover your mind.”
“When a man loves there is no desire, when he desires there is no love.”
“The most ridiculous thing is when people say you've changed when they can't use you the way they used to.”
“Words and magic were the same thing in the beginning. Words have magical powers.”
“A person who knows how to wait doesn't have to compromise on anything.”
“Intense love and affection for a certain person is almost always accompanied by unconscious hostility.”
“Wherever there is a prohibition, there is a desire to carry out that forbidden act.”
“Just as a general moves miniature figures on a map before mobilizing his army, thinking is experimenting without much energy.”
“Psychoanalysis is really treatment through love.”
“We need to love in order not to be sick, but it is love that makes us sick.”
“A man who is the undisputed favorite of his mother harbors a lifelong sense of being a conqueror, the self-confidence that often leads to real success.”
“Man is a remnant of those he meets.”
“Freedom is not a gift of civilization. Mankind was much freer when there was no civilization.”
“How daring it is when you know you are loved.”