What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
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More Quotes from Sigmund Freud
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.
You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.
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The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.
It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.
