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| Quote #1: | "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." |
| Quote #2: | "A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world." |
| Quote #3: | "One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself." |
| Quote #4: | "We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love." |
| Quote #5: | "No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy." |
| Quote #6: | "Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise." |
| Quote #7: | "What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult." |
| Quote #8: | "Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism." |
| Quote #9: | "The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want" |
| Quote #10: | "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." |
| Quote #11: | "One is very crazy when in love." |
| Quote #12: | "Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness." |
| Quote #13: | "Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites." |
| Quote #14: | "Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires." |
| Quote #15: | "From error to error, one discovers the entire truth." |
| Quote #16: | "We are certainly getting ahead if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar." |
| Quote #17: | "Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me." |
| Quote #18: | "Anatomy is destiny." |
| Quote #19: | "The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief." |
| Quote #20: | "America is a mistake, a giant mistake." |
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