When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
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The madman is a dreamer awake.
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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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The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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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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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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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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Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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The ego is not master in its own house.
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Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
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A strong egoism is a protection.
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A 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.
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All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
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