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.
SIGMUND FREUDA man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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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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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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History is just new people making old mistakes.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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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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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
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Without love we fall ill.
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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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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
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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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Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
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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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