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.
SIGMUND FREUDThe interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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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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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
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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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Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
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The madman is a dreamer awake.
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All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
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Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.
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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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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 only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.
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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
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When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
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