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.
SIGMUND FREUDA man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
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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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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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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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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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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
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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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The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
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If you can’t do it, give up!
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History is just new people making old mistakes.
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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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Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
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