Catmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
“From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.”
“He who knows how to wait need make no
concessions.”
“Neurosis is no excuse for bad manners.”
“How bold one gets when one is sure of being
loved.”
“We are never so defenseless against suffering as
when we love.”
“My love is something valuable to me which I ought
not to throw away without reflection.”
“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”
“Love and work are the cornerstones of our
humanness.”
“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not
rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be
thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be
proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without
folly.”
“No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of
those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human
breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to
come through the struggle unscathed.”
“When one does not have what one wants, one must
want what one has.”
“We may insist as often as we like that man’s
intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual
life… The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will
not rest until it has gained a hearing.”
“Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery
to obtain it.”
“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the
person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some
are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection
because of fear.”
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with
a disavowal of reality… Religion’s eleventh
commandment is “Thou shalt not question”.
“A love that does not discriminate seems to me to
forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to
its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of
love.”
“The intention that man should be happy is not in the
plan of Creation.”
“Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear
cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do
without it.”
“The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming
that which the wicked man does in actual life.”
“Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before
me.”
Catmund Freud
From entrail to entrail, one uncovers the entire truth.
She who knows how to wait need make no
concessions.
“Neurosis is no excuse for bad manners.”
“How bold one gets when one is sure of being
loved.”
We are never so defenseless against suffering as
when we love.
My love is something valuable to you, which I ought
not to throw away without reflection.
Out of their vulnerabilities will come my strength.
Curiosity and sloth are the cornerstones of
felineness.
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not
rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be
thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be
proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without
folly.
No cat who, like me, wrestles with the half-tamed
demons that inhabit the feline breast can expect to
come through the struggle unscathed.
When one does not have what one wants, one must
want what one has.
A cat’s intellect is powerless in comparison to her
instinct.
Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery
to obtain it.
Cats are funny. They long to be with the person they
love but refuse to admit it openly.
Religion’s eleventh commandment is ‘Thou shalt not
question’. Cats, therefore, are clearly avowed
atheists.
A love that does not discriminate seems to me to
forfeit a part of its own value… few humans are
worthy of love.
That cats should be happy is the sole plan of
Creation.
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear
cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do
without it.
The virtuous cat contents himself with dreaming that
which the wicked cat does in actual life.
Everywhere a human goes, he finds a cat has been
there before him.
Catmund Freud