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Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by 'mere' words. He will feel that he is being asked to believe in magic. And he will not be so very wrong, for the words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic. But we shall have to follow a roundabout path in order to explain how science sets about restoring to words a part at least of their former magical power.
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Father | God | Individual | Nothing | Psychoanalysis | God |
There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
Men ... ask nothing better, it would seem, than to leave their destiny, their life, and all their thoughts in the hands of a few men with a gift for the exclusive manipulation of this or that technique.
Chance | Father | Meditation | Mother |
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.
Sinéad O’Connor, fully Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor
I cannot put in danger the lives of my two children, my musicians and my technicians, so I have decided to cancel this concert.
Church | Reputation | Spirit | Will |
Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
‘I wonder!’ said he, leaning back and staring at the ceiling. ‘Perhaps there are points which have escaped your Machiavellian intellect. Let us consider the problem in the light of pure reason.’
Thérèse de Lisieux, fully Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin NULL
Just as a torrent sweeps along with it unto the depths of the sea whatsoever it encounters on its course, even so, my Jesus, does the soul which plunges into the boundless ocean of Thy Love draw after her all her treasures. Lord, Thou knowest that for me these treasures are the souls it has pleased Thee to unite to mine.
Care | Eternal | Father | God | Good | Life | Life | Little | Love | Occupation | Sacrifice | Words | God | Child |
Anselm of Canterbury, aka Saint Anselm or Archbishop of Canterbury NULL
Because nothing is true except by participating in truth; and so, the truth of something true is in that true thing. But the thing stated is not in the true statement, and thus must not be called its truth; rather, it must be called the cause of the statement's truth. Therefore, it seems to me that the truth of the statement must be sought only in the statement itself..
Thérèse de Lisieux, fully Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin NULL
God would not make me wish for something impossible and so, in spite of my littleness, I can aim at being a saint. It is impossible for me to grow bigger, so I put up with myself as I am, with all my countless faults. But I will look for some means of going to heaven by a little way which is very short and very straight, a little way that is quite new[...] It is your arms, Jesus, which are the lift to carry me to heaven, And so there is no need for me to grow up. In fact, just the opposite: I must stay little and become less and less.
Father | Gratitude | Love | Prayer | Sorrow | Soul | Worth |
Ambrose, aka Saint Ambrose, fully Aurelius Ambrosius NULL
We are free to be ignorant [about the day on which angels were created] because we neither must nor can know.
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Thérèse de Lisieux, fully Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin NULL
God's love is revealed just as much in the most simple soul who does not resist His graces as in the most sublime.
Church | Enough | God | Good | Grace | Light | Looks | Love | Nature | Nothing | Soul | God |
Cyprian, aka Saint Cyprian of Carthage, fully Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus NULL
No one is safe by his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God.
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