Quote by Sigmund Freud
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intellige

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. – Sigmund Freud

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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. – Sigmund Freud

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Reality
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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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Experience
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Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patients ego freedom to decide one way or another. – Sigmund Freud

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Freedom
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Other Quotes from
Inner Child
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso, quoted in Time, October 1976

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Inner Child

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. – Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943

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Inner Child

I want to giggle myself to sleep each night and jump on the fluffy, comforting pillows of faith. – Terri Guillemets

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Inner Child

A grownup is a child with layers on. – Woody Harrelson

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Inner Child

Random Quotes

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up. – Jeff Goodell

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Politics

In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem. – John Doolittle

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Faith

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers. – Imelda Marcos

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Dreams

Been taken for granted? Imagine how God feels. – Author Unknown

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God