All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
SIGMUND FREUDAll family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
SIGMUND FREUDImmorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
SIGMUND FREUDUnexpressed 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.
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.
SIGMUND FREUDWhoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
SIGMUND FREUDReligion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
SIGMUND FREUDWere we fully to understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.
SIGMUND FREUDLoneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
SIGMUND FREUDI had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
SIGMUND FREUDOne day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
SIGMUND FREUDThe paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
SIGMUND FREUDIt is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
SIGMUND FREUDReligion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end.
SIGMUND FREUDA 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.
SIGMUND FREUDThe behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
SIGMUND FREUDIf it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
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