The madman is a dreamer awake.
SIGMUND FREUDReligion 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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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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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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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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If youth knew; if age could.
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Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
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The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
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When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
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The goal of all life is death.
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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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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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The unconscious mind is that strange sub-world revealed through dreams, lapses, or Freudian slips. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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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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The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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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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