Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
SIGMUND FREUDWere we fully to understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly.
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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 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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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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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.
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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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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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Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday..
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Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.
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The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.
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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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