The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
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More Quotes from Sigmund Freud
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.
My strength is made perfect in weakness.
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.
