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Biography - Sigmund Freud:

Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis.
Born: 1856 - Died: 1939
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Czech Republic
Czech Republic

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



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Denken Sie an den betrübenden Kontrast zwischen der strahlenden Intelligenz eines gesunden Kindes und der Denkschwäche des durchschnittlichen Erwachsenen.

French
Pensez au contraste attristant qui existe entre l'intelligence rayonnante d'un enfant bien portant et la faiblesse mentale d'un adulte moyen.




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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that most grown men who are remarkable in this respect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty, than to have acquired it.




Quotes for: intelligence


Quotes

Quotes about intelligence:


Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.





To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.





Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.





The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.











Quotes for: weakness


Quotes

Quotes about weakness:


No man is weak by choice.





What is tolerance? It is the endowment of humanity. We are all steeped in weakness and error; let us forgive each other our stupidities, that is the first law of nature.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not, than in those who know it.





Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.





Tolerance is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.











Quotes

Quotes for: child


All grown-ups were once children (but only few of them remember it).





We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.





Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.





Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.





Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.











Quotes

Sigmund Freud also said...


Important matters may manifest themselves through small signs.





Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.





The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.





Whatever makes for cultural development is working also against war.





The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied:





In jest - it is well known - one may even tell the truth.












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