Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
SIGMUND FREUDAll giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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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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Religion 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.
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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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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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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.
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All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
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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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A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
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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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Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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If you can’t do it, give up!
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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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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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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
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A strong egoism is a protection.
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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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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.
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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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History is just new people making old mistakes.
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Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday..
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When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
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