Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
SIGMUND FREUDImmorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome 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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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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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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Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
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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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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
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A strong egoism is a protection.
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The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. We become closed – not only to people’s pain – but also their happiness.
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If you can’t do it, give up!
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If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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