Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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.
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There are no mistakes.
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The goal of all life is death.
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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 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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Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.
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I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
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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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If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
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Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
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From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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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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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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Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
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