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.
SIGMUND FREUDDogs 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 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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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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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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A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
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Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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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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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves.
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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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