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The worst egoist is the person to whom the thought has never occurred that he might be one.

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Austrian psychoanalyst and neurologist
“Notebook of Aphorisms” (1871)

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Austrian psychoanalyst and neurologist
(1933)
quote in E. Jones, Sigmund Freud: Life and Work, vol.3, pt.1, ch.4 (1957)

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Austrian psychoanalyst and neurologist
(Attributed)