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Sigmund Freud Art Quotes - (15 quotes)

Sigmund Freud - From the Burning category:

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. (Sigmund Freud)

Sigmund Freud - From the Choices category:

In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature. (Sigmund Freud)

Sigmund Freud - From the Complexity category:

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. (Sigmund Freud)

Sigmund Freud - From the Curiosity category:

-on Leonardo da Vinci...
He transmuted his passion into inquisitiveness. (Sigmund Freud)

Sigmund Freud - From the Dreams category:

The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse. (Sigmund Freud)

Sigmund Freud - From the Gender category:

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?' (Sigmund Freud)

Sigmund Freud - From the Health category:

Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination. (Sigmund Freud)

Sigmund Freud - From the Inspiration category:

When inspiration doesn't come, I go halfway to meet it. (Sigmund Freud)

Sigmund Freud - From the Intellect category:

The voice of intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. (Sigmund Freud)

Sigmund Freud - From the Love category:

All that matters is love and work. (Sigmund Freud)

Sigmund Freud - From the Mistakes category:

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. (Sigmund Freud)

Sigmund Freud - From the Questions category:

All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love. (Sigmund Freud)

Sigmund Freud - From the Symbols category:

An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols. (Sigmund Freud)

Sigmund Freud - From the Temperament category:

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador – an adventurer, if you want it translated – with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort. (Sigmund Freud)

Sigmund Freud - From the Wisdom category:

Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration. (Sigmund Freud)

Editor: Robert Genn

Consultants: Sara Genn, Richard Thompson
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