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The dream that one’s teeth are dropping out is explained by “dental irritation,” which does not, however, of necessity imply a morbid condition of irritability in the teeth.
The dream is neither pure derangement nor pure irrationality.
The Roman emperor who ordered one of his subjects to be executed because he dreamed that he had cut off the emperor’s head was not far wrong in justifying his action on the ground that he who has such dreams must have similar thoughts while awake.
who have thus afforded a brilliant example of the aversion to learning anything new so characteristic of the scientist.
The learned are not inquisitive.
The hysterical woman identifies herself by her symptoms most readily—though not exclusively—with persons with whom she has had sexual relations, or who have had sexual intercourse with the same persons as herself.
Seldom have I understood you, But when we found ourselves in the mire, We at once understood each other!
Plato—that the virtuous man contents himself with dreaming of that which the wicked man does in actual life.
The ancient belief that dreams reveal the future is not indeed entirely devoid of the truth. By representing a wish as fulfilled the dream certainly leads us into the future; but this future, which the dreamer accepts as his present, has been shaped in the likeness of the past by the indestructible wish.
