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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Sigmund Freud
- Life
- 1856-1939
- Occupations
- psychoanalyst, neurologist, essayist
- Notable works
- The Interpretation of Dreams, Civilization and Its Discontents, Totem and Taboo
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He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Sigmund Freud
One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be “happy” is not included in the plan of “Creation.”
Sigmund Freud
One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be "happy" is not included in the plan of "Creation." Civilization and Its Discontents, ch. 2 (1930).
Sigmund Freud
Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
Sigmund Freud
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Sigmund Freud
The ego is not master in its own house.
Sigmund Freud
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?”
Sigmund Freud
Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
Sigmund Freud
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Sigmund Freud