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“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.” — Sigmund Freud

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“Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.” — Sigmund Freud

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“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” — Sigmund Freud

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“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.” — Sigmund Freud

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“I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.” — Sigmund Freud

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“Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.” — Sigmund Freud

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“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.” — Sigmund Freud

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“The goal of all life is death.” — Sigmund Freud

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“If youth knew; if age could.” — Sigmund Freud

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“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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