Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
SIGMUND FREUDThe intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end.
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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A strong egoism is a protection.
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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
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Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion’s eleventh commandment is “Thou shalt not question.
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A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
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Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
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Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
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