Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
SIGMUND FREUDIt is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
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All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
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The goal of all life is death.
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It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
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Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
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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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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. We become closed – not only to people’s pain – but also their happiness.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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