{"author":"Sigmund Freud","author_id":"Sigmund+Freud","total_quotes":152,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["evil","dream","alien "],"id":744,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["angry","rock","person "],"id":3690,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["creation","happiness"],"id":6321,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"Time spent with cats is never wasted.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["cats","pet","never "],"id":6522,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"The story is told of a famous German chemist that his marriage did not take place, because he forgot the hour of his wedding and went to the laboratory instead of to the church. He was wise enough to be satisfied with a single attempt and died at a great age unmarried.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["career","marriage"],"id":7125,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["freud","happiness","suffering"],"id":10083,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"The child is brought up to know its social duties by means of a system of love-rewards and punishments, and in this way it is taught that its security in life depends on its parents (and, subsequently, other people) loving it and being able to believe in its love for them.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["child","dependent","love","parent","punishment","reward","security","social-duties","system","trust"],"id":17804,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"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.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["decisions"],"id":18050,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the animal kingdom, and on which each individual of his species must ever again appear as a helpless infant... Is a direct fulfilment of all, or of most, of the dearest wishes in his fairy-tales. All these possessions he has acquired through culture. Long ago he formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods. One may say, therefore, that these gods were the ideals of his culture. Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself. But only, it is true, in the way that ideals are usually realized in the general experience of humanity. Not completely; in some respects not at all, in others only by halves. Man has become a god by means of artificial limbs, so to speak, quite magnificent when equipped with all his accessory organs; but they do not grow on him and they still give him trouble at times... Future ages will produce further great advances in this realm of culture, probably inconceivable now, and will increase man's likeness to a god still more.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["culture","desire","fairy-tale","forbidden","fulfillment","future","gods","humanity","mankind","omnipotence","omniscience","prediction","science","wish"],"id":22469,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["america","individualism","intimacy","isolation","politeness","porcupine"],"id":25424,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":152,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}