The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.
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If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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I have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.
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History is just new people making old mistakes.
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The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly.
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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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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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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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