it attributes to Sigmund Freud
2006-12-06 17:52:54 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Somethings ARE actually what they appear to be.
2006-12-06 17:54:51 · answer #1 · answered by Lucky 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This quote is attributed to Sigmund Freud. It means that sometimes you don't have to look deeply for answers or meanings, and you should just take things at face value.
2006-12-07 23:10:40 · answer #2 · answered by Roja 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, Freud used to see sex in everything. It means a cigar is not some sort of phallic symbol (as Freud would have suggested) and is really just a cigar
2006-12-06 17:55:05 · answer #3 · answered by Hera 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A famous Rudyard Kipling quote is "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke". It would be interesting to know which quote came first, and whether it became well enough known for the second to deliberately echo it.
James Thurber has a book around 1950 in which one of the characters says "An oyster is a blob of glup, but a woman is a woman", echoing both of them.
2006-12-08 04:23:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that you sometimes need to take things at face value and not try to attach a bunch of arcane meaning to things.
Sigmund Freud was known for his ideas on sexuallity and imagery as symbolism for sexual things. If he mentioned a cigar, there are people who thought he was talking about a phallic symbol, when maybe he was just talking about a cigar.
2006-12-06 18:00:31 · answer #5 · answered by bambi 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
"Sometimes someone talking about cigars is just talking about cigars, and not trying to make a life-transforming statement for the benefit of humanity."
That's what it means.
2006-12-06 20:01:27 · answer #6 · answered by B SIDE 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ooh. Deep man. Yeah I think some dreams mean things but most are just random images created by your brain.
2016-05-23 02:57:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
some people have habit of saying a double meaning sentence.
The problem is people gets used to such kind of people &try to work out the 2nd meaning of the sentence.
result : people often misunderstands such person.
he may have said cigar without any 2nd meaning
2006-12-07 20:01:26 · answer #8 · answered by bubbly l 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It simply means that dont go looking for hidden meanings or read between the lines. Its just what it is.
2006-12-06 18:06:48 · answer #9 · answered by Samir . 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the literal meaning emplies , at times things are just the way they appear , without any thing fuzzy or hidden underneath.
2006-12-07 23:17:01 · answer #10 · answered by Pranks 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometime there is nothing of a psychological nature to read into something.
2006-12-06 21:24:36 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋