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 FREUDThe intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
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I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
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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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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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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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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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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.
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