Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
SIGMUND FREUDWords 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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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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There are no mistakes.
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From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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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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A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
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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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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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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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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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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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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.
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